A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in Reading, UK. The hot region, which had a temperature of over 750 K, ...

The world’s smallest temporary pacemaker is self-powered, optically controlled and dissolves when it’s no longer needed ...

Founded in 2020, CISM moved into a new, state-of-the-art £50m building in 2023 and is now in its first full year of operation. Meredith explains how technological innovation and skills training at ...

Harvard University is the suing the US government over its plan to block up to $9bn of government research grants to the institution ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...

Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

Researchers in Canada are developing a low-cost orthovoltage radiotherapy system for use in low-resource and geographically remote regions ...

A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human vision. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Oz works by stimulating ...

Physicists working on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are the first to report the production of top quark–antiquark pairs in collisions involving heavy nuclei. By colliding ...

Abnormal versions of synchronization patterns known as “Arnold’s tongues” have been observed in a femtosecond fibre laser that generates oscillating light pulses. While these unconventional patterns ...