Spin-offs from big science are everywhere and some are bigger – and more unexpected – than you might think, as James McKenzie ...

Charting disciplines This infographic shows the fields of physics associated with successive Nobel Prizes for Physics. Click on the image to expand. (Courtesy: Alison Tovey/IOP Publishing) Part of the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a €360m mission to perform a close-up “crash-scene” investigation of the 150 m-diameter asteroid Dimorphos, which was purposely hit by a NASA probe in 2022 ...

Real-time analysis can drive improvements that benefit manufacturers as well as the environment, says Kalle Blomberg ...

A heart-on-a-chip platform sent to the International Space Station reveals how 30 days in space alters heart muscle cells ...

The second phase is a “liquid-vapour-like state”, in which the children act like molecules to form “droplets” of social ...

Particle physicist Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux talks about how the next generation of neutrino experiments will test the ...

Laughlin probably doesn’t remember the encounter: Nobel laureates, who are the only real celebrities in physics, meet ...

But that changed one day in October 1994. I began that day listening to a news bulletin on CBC radio – and the lead item was ...

The School of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) sits within Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Applied Sciences. Its ...

A novel camera inspired by structures within cats’ eyes could be employed in autonomous vehicles, drones and surveillance ...

Interventions to integrate young female physicists into established networks could help tackle underrepresentation ...