Simulations suggest that iterative technique could increase the energy output of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion ...

All eyes were on the election of Donald Trump as US president earlier this month, whose win overshadowed two big appointments ...

A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

A fibrous composite foam employs the triboelectric effect and in situ electrical energy dissipation to absorb low-frequency ...

Ideas industry: a new report by the Institute of Physics finds an extra £4.5bn of extra funding for physics “deep tech” ...

Working principle Illustration of the single-crystal (a) and cascade-connected two-crystal (b) devices under X-ray irradiation. (c) Time-resolved photocurrent responses of the two devices. (Courtesy: ...

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Entangled electrons Illustration depicting an atom (green nucleus with a white electron cloud) that is hit by a laser pulse (red). One electron is ripped out of the atom (black sphere on the right) ...

The big names in physics to write for the volume include Martin Rees on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence across a century; Carlo Rovelli on scientific thinking across the centuries; and ...

Penne for your thoughts: not visible with the naked eye, the spaghetti is only 372 nanometres across (courtesy: Beatrice Britton / Adam Clancy) While spaghetti might have a diameter of a couple of ...

Folded lens system Strategically positioned metasurfaces fold the light trajectory diagonally within a glass substrate, maintaining optical paths while significantly ...