Mulugeta Bekele is almost single-handedly responsible for having kept Ethiopian physics going in the 1970s and 1980s despite being imprisoned and tortured by the Ethiopian military. Robert P Crease ...

Early-career physicist Natasha Khan talks about her route to becoming a nuclear safety engineer – a journey that includes job rejections, the charity sector and nuclear awards ...

Particle therapy experts gathered in London to discuss the transformative potential of laser-driven proton and ion beams ...

The parity-identification problem fits naturally into this landscape. Parity is a global property, insensitive to most local details. In this respect, it resembles many other quantities studied in ...

Integrating metamaterials into radiofrequency antennas improves image sharpness and enables faster data acquisition using ...

A distributed intercity network of quantum sensors is placing additional constraints on the parameters that axionic dark matter could have. (Courtesy: USTC) A new of way of searching for dark-matter ...

Anita Chandran reviews The Body Digital: a Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT by Vanessa ...

Addressed to science minister Patrick Vallance, the letter says the cuts are causing “reputational risk” and calls for ...

Earlier this year, however, the UK government announced that it will no longer fund the upgrade of the LHCb experiment on the ...

While the basic form of QKD enables information to be transmitted securely, it does have some weak points. One of them is ...

The display comprises seven sculptures that are illuminated from two different directions. The result is two very different ...

However, the quantum states they rely on are prone to decohering – that is, losing their quantum information due to local noise. One possible way around this is to use quantum bits (qubits) ...