As the technologies we use become more quantum in nature, it follows that everyone should have a basic understanding of ...

Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could produce up to 10% of the universe’s gold, silver and platinum, according to a new study. What is more, astronomers may have ...

Shengxi Huang explains why Picoquant’s instruments are helping her to develop 2D materials that are highly efficient sources ...

Mike Follows reviews World Without End: an Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe ...

Physics World corresponding editor Isabelle Dumé reports from a Paris symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the ...

First high-resolution images of Bolivia's Uturuncu volcano show it is likely to remain active without actually erupting ...

Efstathiou is professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Bond is a professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and university professor at the ...

A wearable navigation assistance system combines visual, audio and haptic senses to assist visually impaired people with ...

New research explains previous contradictory observations in terms of “topological blocking”, which may occur in other ...

Patient with rare cancer is the first in the US to be treated with highly accurate step-and-shoot proton arc therapy ...

In the third of our series of truly weird quantum effects, Maria Violaris investigates the paradoxical delayed-choice quantum eraser “Welcome to this special issue of Physics World, marking the 200th ...