Physicists at Columbia University in the US say they may have found evidence for a phenomenon in which a superfluid suddenly stops flowing inside a solid-state material. If confirmed, the finding – ...

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Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about it Jettisoned junk A pallet of old batteries released into space from the ...

Strategic recruitment of international talent is helping Denmark establish itself as a research powerhouse in quantum science and technology Shared purpose Maria Cerdà Sevilla and her colleagues at ...

Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...