NZ wants a high-tech future. Its proposed physics curriculum may make that harder
New Zealand is placing big bets on science and technology, with plans to boost high-tech research funding by…
In 2025, scientists made sound behave like a rainbow, separating different frequencies and sending them in different directions
A rainbow of light forms because different wavelengths travel through a prism or water droplets at different angles.…
Guest Post — Quantum Strategy Demands a New Operating Model: From Uncertainty to Readiness.
Guest Post by Dr. Richard Padbury, Dr. Aaron Kemp, Dr. Cian Reeves. In boardrooms around the world, a…
Crystal symmetry controls hydrogen’s quantum tunnelling – Physics World
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CERN Physicists Find Evidence for Gluon Saturation inside Atomic Nuclei
Physicists working with the ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have made the most detailed measurement yet…
New thin film could make heat sensors more sensitive
Bivas Saha, Sourav Rudra, Diksha Dadhich, Renuka Karanje and Dheemahi Rao (left to right) BENGALURU: A new thin-film…
Fusion energy faces a new test that has nothing to do with physics
Fusion energy has cleared major scientific hurdles. Now researchers have a new way to determine whether future power…
Ultrafast temporal engineering of optical properties using terahertz light
Joannopoulos, J. D., Johnson, S. G., Winn, J. N. & Meade, R. D. Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow…
‘Absurd’: Government seeks quantum tech chief
Wednesday 12 August 2026 5:08 pm | Updated: Wednesday 12 August 2026 5:09 pm The government committed £2bn to…
Twenty Years of Watching One Galaxy, and It Made Less Sense
How well would you know someone from four photographs taken a decade apart? That, roughly, is the position…
Two Million X-Ray Sources, and One Cluster That Doesn’t Fit
Clusters are the largest gravitationally bound things in the universe, thousands of galaxies held together in a vast…
Knowing through uncertainty: probability and the evolution of our cosmos – Physics World
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