From the 19th century onwards, acid-etching techniques started to be used by numerous stained-glass artists and studios ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $50m to a consortium of national laboratories and universities to develop ...

Physical exercise plays an important role in controlling disease, including cancer, due to its effect on the human body’s ...

Physicists say the LHC could provide evidence to back up theoretical findings on how shapes of atomic nuclei change under ...

Energy transition Dark matter may have been created after the Big Bang, something that could soon be tested by gravitational ...

Topological flat band may account for fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect recently observed in pentalayer moiré graphene ...

The plant kingdom is full of intriguing ways to distribute seeds such as the dandelion pappus effortlessly drifting on air currents to the ballistic nature of fern sporangia. Not to be outdone, the ...

A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

Sound absorption Incoming acoustic waves induce relative movements among the fibres, initiating the triboelectric effect within overlapping regions. The generated charges are dissipated through ...

Calculation: A representation of a network of electromagnetic waveguides (left) being used to solve Dirichlet boundary value problems. The coloured diagrams at right represent the normalized ...

For all of us concerned about the climate, 2023 was a grim year. One of the biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate change is the impact of clouds. Michael Allen speaks to the physicists ...