Van Dishoeck talks about some of the key unanswered questions in astrochemistry, including how complex molecules form on the tiny specks of dust in interstellar space. We chat about the recent growth ...

Small levitating platforms that can stay airborne indefinitely at very high altitudes have been developed by researchers in the US and Brazil. Using photophoresis, the devices could be adapted to ...

Hybrid copper-halide-based emitters promise the best of both worlds, being both non-toxic and stable. They are also inexpensive, with tuneable optical properties and a high luminescence efficiency, ...

David Norman reviews The Physics of Birds and Birding: the Sounds, Colors and Movements of Birds, and Our Tools for Watching Them by Michael Hurben ...

David Jess and colleagues at Queen’s University Belfast are joining the dots between the seemingly distant disciplines of solar physics and sports science. Joe McEntee assesses their game plan Star ...

Travis Humble is director of the Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, US – which is run by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The centre links the capabilities ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...

This episode of Physics World Stories explores a new book that restores women to the early history of quantum mechanics ...

At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

New findings help meteorologists better understand the physical mechanisms driving climate change, particularly the role of ...

Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...