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Researchers uncover how vortex-like defects in liquid crystals mimic superconducting behaviour, forming structured Abrikosov clusters ...
Above and beyond: a new Institute of Physics report highlights “in-space manufacturing” as a future growth opportunity with companies seeing “huge advantages” through in-orbit production lines.
The CMS detector at CERN has continues to test the limits of the Standard Model of particle physics. (Courtesy: CERN) Lepton flavour universality is a principle in particle physics that concerns how ...
Model reveals that tritium in treated water discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi reactor has negligible impact on tritium concentration in the ocean ...
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Physicists have taken a major step toward unlocking the mysteries of antimatter by being the first to perform coherent spin spectroscopy on a single antiproton. Done by researchers on CERN’s BASE ...
Climate concerns: torrential rain in late June triggered a landslide in Columbia that killed 27 people while devastating floods in Venezuela displaced thousands. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/migel) A ...
Precision medicine: meet two medical physicists who are making it possible Compared with classical image analysis algorithms, the team’s deep learning approach was vastly more reliable in predicting ...
Wave location: Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Dickson Fjord in East Greenland. (Courtesy: Thomas Monahan) In September 2023, seismic detectors around the world began picking up a ...
Emanual Wallace, aka Big Manny, is quickly becoming the new face of science outreach. He talks to Sarah Tesh about his journey from making social media videos in his garden, to writing books and ...
Low-density neighbourhood Artist’s conception of the Milky Way. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) A large, low density region of space surrounding the Milky Way may explain one of the most puzzling ...
QIScope: When imaging low protein levels in live cells on the high-sensitivity QIScope, bioluminescence (blue) significantly outperforms fluorescence (green). (Courtesy: Ruyu Ma - Helmholtz Munich) A ...