Oscillating conductance This measurement on the middle quantum dot shows how the bulk gap in the system can be created and removed. This control is important for the manipulation and protection of ...

The Leinweber Foundation has awarded five US institutions $90m to create their own theoretical research institutes. The ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

Researchers in China have adapted the interlocking structure of mortise-and-tenon joints – as used by woodworkers around the world since ancient times – to the design of nanoscale devices known as ...

First high-resolution images of Bolivia's Uturuncu volcano show it is likely to remain active without actually erupting ...

Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could produce up to 10% of the universe’s gold, silver and platinum, according to a new study. What is more, astronomers may have ...

As the technologies we use become more quantum in nature, it follows that everyone should have a basic understanding of ...

Physics World corresponding editor Isabelle Dumé reports from a Paris symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the ...

Shengxi Huang explains why Picoquant’s instruments are helping her to develop 2D materials that are highly efficient sources ...

Mike Follows reviews World Without End: an Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe ...

New research explains previous contradictory observations in terms of “topological blocking”, which may occur in other ...

Efstathiou is professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Bond is a professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and university professor at the ...