The study reveals that academics in non-lab-based disciplines, such as mathematics, business, economics, sociology and ...

This episode of Physics World Stories explores a new book that restores women to the early history of quantum mechanics ...

Hybrid copper-halide-based emitters promise the best of both worlds, being both non-toxic and stable. They are also inexpensive, with tuneable optical properties and a high luminescence efficiency, ...

Van Dishoeck talks about some of the key unanswered questions in astrochemistry, including how complex molecules form on the tiny specks of dust in interstellar space. We chat about the recent growth ...

Two distinct descriptions of nuclei unified for the first time According to de Angelis, this first mass measurement of the silicon-22 nucleus and the discovery of the magic proton number 14 is “a ...

Small levitating platforms that can stay airborne indefinitely at very high altitudes have been developed by researchers in the US and Brazil. Using photophoresis, the devices could be adapted to ...

Travis Humble is director of the Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, US – which is run by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The centre links the capabilities ...

David Norman reviews The Physics of Birds and Birding: the Sounds, Colors and Movements of Birds, and Our Tools for Watching Them by Michael Hurben The physics of (king)fishing When kingfishers dive ...

An international team of physicists has studied how particles are produced in high-energy electron–proton collisions through the lens of entanglement entropy ...