Under pressures that would crush a car into scrap, a long standing mystery about how some of the most extreme superconductors actually work is finally giving way. By combining new measurement tricks ...

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Alonso breaks down how advances in computational fluid dynamics and physics AI are enabling designers to simulate complex ...

Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of ...

The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering.

Ultrashort laser pulses—that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second—have transformed fundamental science, ...

In a first, researchers from the U.S. and Germany excite Thorium-229 in opaque material, advancing optical nuclear clocks.

Germany’s most important research funding prize is presented to ten researchers / Prize money of €2.5 million each / Award ceremony to be held in Berlin on 18 March ...

A preprint argues that symptom scores in psychology are not neutral data but active interventions that shape care.

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Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, antimatter, atomic and molecular physics and more. The Top Ten is the ...