Physicists weren’t sure why Moon rocks brought back during the Apollo missions are more strongly magnetized than models predict
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Try out our quick crossword all about climate and geophysics
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A consultancy firm with expertise in radiation safety can help companies developing a new generation of commercial fusion reactors to navigate the regulatory framework
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Low-power optical device achieves around 100 times amplification using just a couple of hundred milliwatts of input power
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LETO/ETO superlattices achieve 20× thermopower enhancement through true 2D electron behaviour
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Early-career physicist Natasha Khan talks about her journey to becoming a nuclear safety engineer
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Particle therapy experts gathered in London to discuss the transformative potential of laser-driven proton and ion beams
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Robert P Creasetalks to Mulugeta Bekele, who almost single-handedly kept Ethiopian physics going
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The list of things that quantum features enable us to do just got a little longer
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Leggett made Nobel-prize-winning contributions to the theory of superfluidity in the 1970s
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Matin Durrani reports from the Careers in Quantum event at the University of Bristol, UK
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Integrating metamaterials into radiofrequency antennas improves image sharpness and enables faster data acquisition using existing MRI scanners
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Scientists at Microsoft Research tout a potential long-term alternative to standard digital archives
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Analysis finds that the use of AI in scientific writing is increasing
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Impulsonics’ “surround sound” technology frees-up living cells
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Anita Chandran reviews The Body Digital: a Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT by Vanessa Chang
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New advances in entanglement witnesses allow researchers to verify genuine multipartite entanglement even in noisy, high‑dimensional and computationally relevant quantum states
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Field-flipping event 40 million years ago in the Eocene epoch lasted 70,000 years
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Heads of almot 60 physics departments sign letter saying UK funding cuts are causing “reputational risk”
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Plasma physicist Debbie Callahan, chief strategy officer at Focused Energy, talks to Hamish Johnston about her work in laser fusion research
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Honor Powrie looks at the perils and plus-sides of nuclear-powered transport
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The noise is down to the base of the shoe forming wrinkles that travel at near supersonic speeds
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Quantum fluctuations couple to stretching bonds
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LHCb spokesperson-elect Tim Gershon is our podcast guest
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Mechanism could pave the way for more robust quantum computation, but questions remain over scalability
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Device-independent quantum-encrypted keys distributed over 100 km
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Robert P Crease reports from a conference at CERN on particle physics in the 1980s and 1990s
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A new framework shows how lost information in quantum systems gives rise to macroscopic entropy and the arrow of time
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