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

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...

At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

New findings help meteorologists better understand the physical mechanisms driving climate change, particularly the role of ...

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 ...

Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon can be used to generate high-current, low-scattering proton treatment beams ...

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 ...