While much insight has been gleaned from how grasshoppers hop, their gliding prowess has mostly been overlooked. Now ...

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

Physicists uncover a universal limit on timekeeping precision, proving that anything from heartbeats to ocean waves can be a ...

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Finding could have applications in acoustic-levitation-assisted 3D printing, mid-air chemical synthesis and micro-robotics ...

A new type of OLED can generate left- or right-handed circularly polarized light from just one form of light-emitting ...

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Andrew Lamb is the chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of Delta.g – a Birmingham-based quantum gravity sensor ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

A simple boundary‑repositioning technique lets materials host infinitely many robust topological states useful for electronics, photonics, and phononics, with a Matryoshka-doll-like hierarchy ...

Machine learning technique teaches power-generating kites to extract energy from turbulent airflows more effectively, ...