Sir John Pendry’s lecture showed how engineered materials make sci-fi real, from invisibility cloaks to microscopes revealing the nanoscopic world.

In theory, as Earth spins through its magnetic field, any conductive material placed on its surface should experience a force ...

High-energy particle accelerators, such as CERN’s Proton Synchrotron and Brookhaven’s Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, were regarded as the most exciting, well-funded and biggest instruments in ...

The Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE) is designed to measure electron activity in the region of the northern magnetospheric ...

When you're challenging a century-old assumption, you're bound to meet a bit of resistance. That's exactly what John ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

The Josephson probe microscope offers an ultra-broadband, highly sensitive, and high-resolution solution to near-field electromagnetic ... grooved quartz tube drawing technology and a multi ...

Led by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, a recent study demonstrates that random light acquires an additional phase factor, known as the geometric phase, when its oscillation ...

But while today's quantum computers can be useful for studying niche areas of physics, a general-purpose ... Vibrations, heat, electromagnetic interference from cell phones and Wi-Fi networks ...