Researchers uncover how vortex-like defects in liquid crystals mimic superconducting behaviour, forming structured Abrikosov clusters ...

Illustration of a polaron The bright sphere is the electron, which is distorting the surrounding lattice. The wavy lines are high-order Feynman diagrams for the electron–phonon interaction. (Courtesy: ...

The 14th International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC) will come to England and take place in the beautiful city of Liverpool. The conference will be jointly hosted by STFC, the Cockcroft ...

Erasure correction cooling Left to right: Adam Shaw, Ivaylo Madjarov and Manuel Endres work on their laser-based apparatus at Caltech (Courtesy: Caltech) In atom-based quantum technologies, motion is ...

Precision medicine: meet two medical physicists who are making it possible Compared with classical image analysis algorithms, the team’s deep learning approach was vastly more reliable in predicting ...

Physicists have taken a major step toward unlocking the mysteries of antimatter by being the first to perform coherent spin spectroscopy on a single antiproton. Done by researchers on CERN’s BASE ...

And now, with the help of beautiful illustrations by Argentinian artist Ana Sanfelippo, Wade has created a clear, concise explanation of light, how it behaves and how we use it. The book starts by ...

Climate concerns: torrential rain in late June triggered a landslide in Columbia that killed 27 people while devastating floods in Venezuela displaced thousands. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/migel) A ...

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Self-assembling microrobots can be magnetically delivered, manoeuvred and retrieved after targeted delivery of their therapeutic cargo ...

Tantalizing evidence for a QSL Diana Kirschbaum in Silke Bühler-Paschen's lab at the Vienna University of Technology. The team has used neutron scattering to observe emergent photons in cerium ...

Defining autonomous The term “autonomous vehicle” is historically ill-defined, but in 2014 SAE International (formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers) introduced a classification system ...