Global conflicts are making renewable energy more attractive, but an all-renewable grid will require solving physics problems as well as political and economic ones ...

Giannis Zacharakis is a biophotonics and biomedical imaging researcher and CEO of the precision photonics spin-off Kymatonics ...

Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 neutral atoms – a promising development in efforts to build a large-scale ...

Physicists in the US and Taiwan have performed new experiments that verify long-standing theoretical predictions of how long-range magnetic order can ...

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Systems governed by chemistry and physics, not biology, can behave in surprisingly lifelike ways, as Giorgio Volpe, Rob ...

Integrating metamaterials into radiofrequency antennas improves image sharpness and enables faster data acquisition using ...

Scientists across the world are finding that global warming could cause extreme changes in earthquakes and volcanic activity.

Addressed to science minister Patrick Vallance, the letter says the cuts are causing “reputational risk” and calls for ...

In a breakthrough in droplet physics, researchers find a way to get centimetre-scale water droplets to jump into the air ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Houston have achieved sustained self-healing of a composite material. The findings promise to extend the lifetime of aircraft and ...

My academic path studying physics at Tsinghua University began in 1981 where I completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s before earning a PhD in 1992. I then did a postdoc at the Central Iron & Steel ...