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 ...

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

“Until now, we thought that solids could not exist above about three times their melting temperatures,” White says. “Our results show that if we heat a material rapidly – that is, before it has time ...

Jonathan Edwards, who originally studied physics at Durham University, still holds the men’s world record for the triple-jump. Edwards broke the record twice on 7 August 1995 at the World Athletics ...

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

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

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

Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

Tailored profiles: The working principle of the new metalaser. The designed geometric phase profile is introduced to the metasurface by rotating the hole in each silicon nitride nanodisk. Then the ...

A team of researchers from the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, China, have developed a new framework for modelling strongly correlated topological insulators A material's band structure can ...

Tucked away Illustration showing the position and size of the CONUS+ detector within the reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland. (Courtesy: MPIK) Evidence of the coherent elastic scattering of reactor ...