Physics

Many governments and tech companies are investing heavily in quantum technologies. In New Zealand, the recently announced Institute…

There are plenty of exoplanets scattered throughout the galaxy, so it would stand to reason there are also…

Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright…

In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom,…

We fabricated an array of nanoslots (w = 950 nm) on quartz substrates with seven different lengths (l = 30, 40,…

Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article CAS PubMed Google…

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to…

A team of astronomers have presented the first polarimetric observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, finding that it has…

A new image of galaxy OJ 287 reveals for the first time the sharply curved, ribbon-like structure of…

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our…

If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat…

Principle of the experiment We start by studying how the optical and spin properties of \({{{\rm{V}}}}_{{{\rm{B}}}}^{-}\) centers in…

‘Spooky action at a distance’ – a beginner’s guide to quantum entanglement and why it matters in the real world