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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Observations from space and Earth reveal location and heading of New Horizons ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a new method for simulating complex quantum systems that can be combined with cutting edge AI techniques ...