When a conventional parachute is deployed, it cannot simply fall vertically towards its target. To protect itself from ...

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for an interference-based method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why ...

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A key figure in this history was Enrico Fermi, who abandoned Fascist Italy ...

The drone-like rotorcraft, which is designed to land on and gather samples from Titan, has been hit by a two-year delay, with ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns ...

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission ...

The Grace radiotherapy system delivers conventional X-ray radiation therapy to patients in the upright position ...

Vacuum tunnelling – an exotic process by which empty space can become temporarily filled with virtual particles when an ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

The researchers found that a slightly curved meniscus allows more wave energy to pass through the barrier. Conversely, if the meniscus curves more steeply, it reduces the energy transported by the ...

The Dutch manufacturer Delft Circuits is rewriting the rules of I/O cabling technology for full-stack quantum computing ...