This is a cool idea, and the use case - on board ships - avoids the big problems with wave energy (maintenence and power take-off). But we still need wave energy generators that can work out at sea.

A new way of extracting energy from ocean waves couples a gyroscope to an electrical generator. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/k8mQ50YiKcE

A team headed up at TU Wien has set the Guinness World Record for creating the world’s smallest QR code, which is so tiny it can only be read out using an electron microscope. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/worlds-sma...

Developing quantum information systems requires the cooperation of academic researchers, national laboratories and industry, explains Bert de Jong. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/CcOZ50Yi9LB

A newly identified metallic material called θ-TaN conducts heat nearly three times better than copper. With a thermal conductivity comparable to low-grade diamond, it breaks a record on heat transport in metals that had held for more than 100 years. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/metallic-m...

A novel biomaterial based on chitin, the second most abundant natural polymer on Earth, increases its strength when wet, while maintaining its natural biodegradability. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/nickel-enh...

Electronics made from certain atomically thin materials can survive harsh radiation environments up to 100 times longer than traditional silicon-based devices. This could bring significant benefits for spacecraft, which are prone to damage from cosmic radiation. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/2d-materia...

Nonidentical objects held in acoustic tweezers can emerge as a time crystal, while appearing to violate Newton’s third law. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/YZ1750Yha6O

A new cooling technique based on the principles of dissolution barocaloric cooling could provide an environmentally friendly alternative to existing refrigeration methods. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/giant-baro...

Amazing! Geophysicists utilise existing earthquake detection technology to monitor space debris falling to Earth. Based on a technique initially developed in studying surface activity on Mars, it's a great example of how space exploration can provide solutions to challenges here on Earth.

It's honestly a great honour to actually participate in this competition organised by @physicsmagazine.bsky.social and @physicsworld.bsky.social, and to be a winner. Many thanks to the organisers for the very interesting experience. physicsworld.com/a/winners-of...

Machine-learning could help us use cosmic muons to peer inside large objects such as nuclear reactors, say researchers in China. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/66p350YgIeJ

Katie Perry from the Daphne Jackson Trust, which helps people to get back into reserach after a break, offers her career advice in Physics World's latest "Ask me anything" column. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ask-me-any...

A faint flash of infrared light in the Andromeda galaxy was emitted at the birth of a stellar-mass black hole – objects that might be more common than previously thought. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/QJRl50Yf0RF

Soon, we may be able to deflect asteroids on collision courses with Earth. In this podcast, aerospace engineer Rahil Makadia explains how deflected asteroids could return to Earth. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/YbqO50YenRc

A new class of biomolecules called magneto-sensitive fluorescent proteins could improve imaging of biological processes inside living cells and potentially underpin innovative therapies. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-quantu...

How do you track space debris as it makes its fiery descent through the Earth’s atmosphere? Geophysicists have come up with an intriguing new answer: use a network of earthquake sensors to follow the shock waves the debris creates. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/earthquake...

Biologically individualized radiotherapy plans, created using PET images of a patient’s tumour biology, could improve treatment outcomes. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/dual-trace...

Entanglement is a key resource for quantum computation and quantum technologies, but it can also tell us much about a computational problem. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/1FYf50YcgCi

An unusual signal initially picked up by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors and subsequently by optical telescopes around the world may have been a “superkilonova” – that is, a kilonova that took place inside a supernova. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/unusual-as...

Honor Powrie reveals why she has a love–hate relationship with patents. On the one hand, they can be worthwhile but on the other can be time-consuming and expensive to take out. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/the-pros-a...

A new way of creating arrays of ultracold neutral atoms using optical metasurfaces could make it possible to build #quantum computers with more than 100,000 qubits – two orders of magnitude higher than today’s best machines. 💡⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/metasurfac...

A passive vacuum pump that uses 3D-printed surfaces to better absorb gas molecules has been unveiled by researchers in the UK. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/9RUr50Y9SI9

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Amanda Randles, who is a computer scientist and biomedical engineer at Duke University in the US. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/2QQ050Y9sLB

Clusters containing thousands of atoms can still behave like waves, demonstrating the validity of #quantum mechanics for particles as massive as virions and some proteins. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/schrodinge...

If you're a UK physicist or astronomer who's concerned about planned funding cuts to science funding by the UKRI, our parent organization @iop.org wants to hear from you: 🧪⚛️🔭 www.iop.org/feedback-fol...

IOP President-elect Paul Howarth CBE warns of a "devastating blow to the foundations of physics" in the @financialtimes.com today following news of planned STFC cuts last week: www.ft.com/content/5732...

Hints of non-gravitational interactions between dark matter and “relic” neutrinos in the early universe have emerged in data from different periods of cosmic history – but we'll need new telescope observations to prove or disprove them. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/interactio...

Implanted electrodes can provide stable and high-quality signals for controlling prosthetic hand and wrist function. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/implanted-...

This great! I’m a firm believer that close coordination between theorists and experimentalists is much more impactful than the sum of them working in isolation.

Astronomers have created the most detailed map to date of the vast structures of dark matter that appear to permeate the universe. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/cBFX50Y8epT

Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...

Multi-ion particle therapy combining beams of carbon, oxygen and neon ions could enhance tumour control while reducing damage to surrounding healthy tissues. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/multi-ion-...

Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data, these datasets are often fragmented. A new project called MaterialsGalaxy aims to change this. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-projec...

Physicists in Germany have created a new type of X-ray laser that uses a resonator cavity to improve the output of a conventional X-ray free electron laser (XFEL). 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/4l1L50Y6mGY

Researchers have developed a new semi-automated microanalytical method that can quantify the behaviour of atmospheric micro- and nanoplastics in city environments. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/scientists...

In this sponsored podcast, medical physicist Todd McNutt explains how an AI-based tool can help improve the quality of radiation therapy. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/oSl150Y5oW4

Deformed nucleus means that ytterbium-173 could be used to create an optical multi-ion clock that is both precise and stable. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/lOAi50Y4SBw

Researchers have brought a thought experiment devised by Albert Einstein into the laboratory, using a single trapped atom as a movable slit. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/einsteins-...

Uranus and Neptune are ice giant planets, right? Well...maybe. New models that make fewer initial assumptions (but still contain plenty of physics) suggest that these outer planet could be mostly made of rock, sparking fresh debate over how they formed. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/uranus-and...

Ideas from string theory have improved models of biological networks. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/QfZ950Y4btQ

Silicon is the bedrock of modern classical computers. For #quantum computers, the bedrock is still TBD, but a new silicon-phosphorous qubit platform developed by researchers in Australia suggests that silicon could play a role here, too. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/could-sili...

Helium is a colourless, odourless gas that barely reacts with anything, which makes identifying helium leaks a real challenge. This sensor detects them by monitoring how sound waves propagate through a topological material – no chemical reactions required. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-sensor...

Surprising result has implications for quantum multicloud storage and information loss from black holes. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/Zcvr50Y1LOH

Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light years away are at least five times greater than theories predict, suggesting much more energetic early cluster growth than predicted by current models. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/hot-ancien...

Focused Energy aims to build a commercial laser-fusion power plant. We speak to the company's chief strategy officer Debbie Callahan. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/GYl550Y1cpX

When a wavefunction collapses in #quantum mechanics, is it instantaneous or gradual? The traditional view is that collapse happens at the moment of measurement, but in the quantum state diffusion framework, it's a continuous process. Here's why that matters: 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/modelling-...

A miniature version of an atomic fountain clock has been unveiled by researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/cESs50Y12ah

Photolithography is the workhorse of modern chip manufacturing, but scientists @psi.ch and @ethz.ch recently discovered that it can also do something far more interesting: manipulate the magnetic properties of materials on a scale of nanometres. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/shining-la...

Turbulent winds are hard to predict, but reinforcement learning may help. A new @physicsworld.bsky.social feature spotlights EPL research using model‑free AI to steer airborne wind‑energy systems. PW Feature: 🔗 physicsworld.com/a/reinforcem... Full article: 🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...