Two studies published this week have an unexpected (if tenuous) link to the 20th century’s most famous maritime disaster ...

Smith then thought about how an unethical daycare centre might take advantage of this to maximize its profits – under the assumption that if there are not enough children attending (who still pay) ...

New insight into the behaviour of atmospheric plastics could be beneficial for investigating their effects on climate, ecosystems and human health ...

The space physicist Michele Dougherty has stepped aside as president of the Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics World. The move was taken to avoid any conflicts of interest given her ...

As well as discussing the benefits that Plan AI brings to radiotherapy patients and cancer treatment centres, they examine its evolution from an idea developed by an academic collaboration to a ...

As well as being useful for creating an optical ion clock, this multi-ion capability could also be exploited to create quantum-computing architectures based on multiple trapped ions. And because the ...

So, if you have learned nothing else from this story, please don’t underestimate the power of a strategically placed and ...

This session will be held in person at CERN and online via Zoom. The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences invites researchers, engineers and postdoctoral fellows ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

Launched on 1 July 2025 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, MTG-S operates from a geostationary orbit, about 36 000 km above Earth’s surface and is able to ...

Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

One of the most striking outcomes of the surface-minimization framework is its ability to explain structural features that ...