A ceremony has been held today to officially open the Ray Dolby Centre at the University of Cambridge. Named after the ...

When an ordinary beam of neutrons strikes the team’s silicon grating, the millions of scored lines on the grating convert the ...

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Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light: The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

Andy Brown at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts discusses the growing impact of AI and machine-learning ...

Seismic wave measurements suggest the supervolcano beneath the popular national park is unlikely to erupt any time soon ...

They assume a small fraction of passengers won’t turn up, which is fine – until you can’t fly because everyone else has ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

Rahmanudin tells Physics World that fluid-based electrodes could lead to entirely new battery designs, including batteries ...

Now, researchers in the US and South Korea have used a neutron beam to differentiate between genuine antique coins and fakes.

Graphene is a layer of carbon just one atom thick and it has range of fascinating and useful properties – as do bilayer and multilayer versions of graphene. Since 2018, condensed-matter physicists ...