Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Lumière: When Luminescence Meets Acoustic Engineering
When a watch chimes on the hour, the sound should resonate with purpose. When it glows in the…
448-qubit milestone puts fault-tolerant quantum computing within reach
Researchers at Harvard, publishing in the journal Nature on Monday, have demonstrated a new quantum system that can…
The Physics of the Northern Lights
Neon lights are glass tubes containing neon or other gases. When an electric current is sent from one…
When space junk comes home
Deployment of Starlink Satellites by SpaceX. Credit: SpaceX Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something…
After I burned out, physics helped me understand what had happened to me – and to move on | Zahaan Bharmal
If the words “force equals mass times acceleration” are mildly triggering, I apologise. Newton’s second law of motion…
Demand for JWST’s observational time hits a new peak
Artist’s depiction of potential observational targets for JWST. Credit: STScI Getting time on the James Webb Space Telescope…
ESA pinpoints 3I/ATLAS’s path with data from Mars
Between 1 and 7 October, our Mars orbiters Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observed the comet…
Machine Learning Discovers Quasars Acting as Lenses
Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars…
HD⁺ ions cooled to 18 mK yield most precise vibrational-rotational spectra to date
Synergistically cooled Be⁺-HD⁺ ion crystal and molecular dynamics simulation. Credit: APM A research team from the Innovation Academy…
An Explanation For The JWST’s Puzzling Early Galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope didn’t need much time to show us how wrong we were about the…
Higher CO₂ levels are making our food more calorific and less nutritious
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more caloric, less nutritious and…
Electrical control of spin currents in graphene via ferroelectric switching achieved
Characteristics of the graphene/In2Se3 heterostructure transport device that shows the spin chirality switch. Credit: Martin Gmitra from the…