Researchers in the US have studied the physics of how cutting onions can produce a tear-jerking reaction.

“Our results are especially interesting for applications where one wants high resolution over a relatively large field of view,” Zia says. “This is important at many scales from microscopy to ...

Predictive model accelerates the development of nanoparticles as potential drug carriers for targeting neurodegenerative ...

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser gyroscope they developed for this purpose. The instrument, which is located in ...

While error correction should become more effective as the number of physical qubits in a logical qubit increases, adding ...

Built on UHV Design’s Production Linear Shift Mechanism range (PLSM), new linear actuator allows heavy objects to be moved ...

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are honoured for their work on metal-organic frameworks (Courtesy: Niklas Elmehed for Nobel Prize Outreach ) Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar ...

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Join the audience for a live webinar at 5 p.m. GMT/1 p.m EST on 29 October. To learn about calendar aging challenges in next generation Si based Li-ion batteries and how to measure and improve it ...

Winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics: John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M Martinis. (Courtesy: UC Berkeley; Yale University; UC Santa Barbara) John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis ...

Six physicists in the nuclear energy industry talk about their career paths, and how a background in physics can be used across the sector ...