The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 has been awarded to Serge Haroche and David J.

The consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP) has negotiated that nearly all particle-physics articles will be immediately free on journal websites from 2014. This impacts researchers, meaning individual groups will not need to arrange open publication of their work. Peter Suber an advocate of open access stated "It is the most systematic attempt to convert all the journals in a given field to open access"(Nature|News, Sept 2012) To read further go to

AIP Publishing now uses and supports MathJax, an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics. It produces high quality maths in all modern browsers, without plugins or other special set-up requirements.

Undergraduate students interested in dark matter, string theory, particle accelerators and other topics in physics can find out about them in Physics for the 21st Century, an Annenberg Media resource for physics teachers and students.The 11-part course features 22 case studies of researchers working on different projects at leading research laboratories and universities. The site includes program descriptions, along with direct links to the full episodes.