New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

It is book week here at Physics World and over the course of three days we are presenting conversations with the authors of ...

McInerney and colleagues’ tube-like design is made from a lattice of beams arranged in such a way that low-energy vibrational ...

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As well as the rich physics of coffee, we chat about strategies for finding the best parking spot and the efficient boarding of aeroplanes. If you have ever wondered why a runner’s ponytail swings ...

Speckle contrast optical spectroscopy provides a cost-effective way to assess cerebral blood flow for diagnosis of neurological disorders ...

Researchers in Austria have entangled matter-based qubits with photonic qubits in a ten-ion system. The technique is scalable to larger ion-qubit registers, paving the way for the creation of larger ...

The ability to induce superconductivity in materials that are inherently semiconducting has been a longstanding research goal ...

Turbulent times This visualization of fluid flow was made using laser-induced fluorescence. (Courtesy: C Fukushima and J Westerweel/Technical University of Delft/CC BY 3.0) The Navier–Stokes partial ...

Under threat: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has closed a third of its buildings since September. (Courtesy: NASA) NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) looks set to lose a big proportion of ...