Energy transition Dark matter may have been created after the Big Bang, something that could soon be tested by gravitational ...

Researchers in the UK have, for the first time, revealed the mechanism behind the squirt by carrying out high-speed videography, computed tomography scans and mathematical modelling.

A fibrous composite foam employs the triboelectric effect and in situ electrical energy dissipation to absorb low-frequency ...

A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

For all of us concerned about the climate, 2023 was a grim year. One of the biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate change is the impact of clouds. Michael Allen speaks to the physicists ...

Calculation: A representation of a network of electromagnetic waveguides (left) being used to solve Dirichlet boundary value problems. The coloured diagrams at right represent the normalized ...

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Working principle Illustration of the single-crystal (a) and cascade-connected two-crystal (b) devices under X-ray irradiation. (c) Time-resolved photocurrent responses of the two devices. (Courtesy: ...

All eyes were on the election of Donald Trump as US president earlier this month, whose win overshadowed two big appointments ...

Ideas industry: a new report by the Institute of Physics finds an extra £4.5bn of extra funding for physics “deep tech” ...