Researchers have used modified rotary sprinklers to provide new insights into the “reverse sprinkler” problem popularized by Richard Feynman. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/experiment...

New experiments show that “strange” metals (which conduct electricity relatively poorly) owe at least some of their peculiar properties to the quantum entanglement of their electrons, backing up previous theoretical findings. physicsworld.com/a/quantum-en...

An exceptionally loud gravitational wave signal is giving us an unprecedented glimpse into the region of space near a black hole’s event horizon – the “surface of no return” beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the pull of gravity. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/super-loud...

"Imagine that you are among the experts charged with compiling a 'compendium of what you need to know right now'. What would you include of science – and why?" Fascinating question from veteran @physicsworld.bsky.social columnist Bob Crease: physicsworld.com/a/tell-us-wh... 🧪⚛️

X-ray images recorded during an orbital spaceflight exhibited similar quality to those taken preflight on Earth - demonstrating the feasibility of adding radiography as a new diagnostic tool for monitoring astronaut health. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/first-medi...

From finding new particles to creating new materials, AI is an increasingly important part of physics, but what happens if it produces answers that we do not – or cannot – fathom? Claire Malone talks to the physics community about how AI is changing physics. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ais-black-...

A compact optical technology that has already proved its worth in Earth-bound applications could be on its way to space after researchers showed that it can map the Sun’s magnetic field just as well as traditional instruments. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/metasurfac...

With AI slop rotting our information landscape, we have to rely more than ever on the skills that make us experts, I argue in my op-ed, out today at @physicsworld.bsky.social: physicsworld.com/a/in-the-age...

A new approach to monitoring suspicious satellites could one day provide a means for verifying the Outer Space Treaty. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/satellite-...

Metamaterials can boost heat transfer over nanoscale distances compared with conventional materials - thanks to the coupling of quasiparticles known as surface phonon polaritons. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/metamateri...

A galaxy that formed around 1 billion years after the Big Bang is in its death throes because a powerful galactic wind is blasting its gas into space. The discovery could explain why some of the universe’s earliest massive galaxies stopped forming new stars. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/powerful-c...

The Bullet Cluster might only have half as much dark matter than scientists thought, or perhaps even none at all, according to a new look at James Webb Space Telescope observations of this immense collision of galaxies. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/does-the-b...

A new adaptive photomemristor provides machine vision that rapidly adapts to natural and complex light fluctuations - just like human eyes. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/machine-vi...

Antineutrino emissions could reveal whether fusion reactors have been reconfigured to produce material for nuclear weapons. "Neutrinos cannot be shielded, their signatures cannot be spoofed and they can be detected from a distance," says team member Patrick Huber. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/antineutri...

Wish you could send a message back in time to your former self? Turns out sending messages back in time might not just be a more efficient way of navigating life’s curve balls – it may be a more efficient way of communicating altogether. physicsworld.com/a/back-to-th... @physicsworld.bsky.social

Researchers develop an AI-boosted rare-event sampling framework to predict the frequency of extreme weather events such as heatwaves. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ai-enhance...

Inspired by the film Interstellar, in which a father sends messages to his daughter in the past, physicists have calculated the information capacity of a backwards-in-time messaging channel based on a closed time-like curve. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/back-to-th...

Superconducting diodes are emerging as pivotal components in superconducting electronics. Now, a new superconducting diode platform that makes it far easier to change the device’s configuration, and thus to control the flow of superconducting electrons through it. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/new-superc...

In the future, a non-invasive pacemaker that’s worn like a sticker on the chest could stimulate the heart using ultrasound. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/wearable-p...

A technique currently used to track whale vocalizations could be adapted to pick up the hydrodynamic pressure fields created as they swim. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/undersea-o...

A new glass screen containing nanoclusters of copper iodide creates higher-resolution X-ray images using a much lower dose of radiation, and could prove ideal for medical imaging applications such as mammography. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/mouldable-...

The PrecisionView handheld endomicroscope provides real-time, high-resolution imaging across large tissue areas, providing a potential alternative to invasive biopsies. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/affordable...

This podcast looks at the challenges at commissioning linacs for radiotherapy. ow.ly/i1EU50ZgQBj

Congratulations to Physics World's Margaret Harris for winning the “Feature of the Year – specialist audience” award from ABSW. ⚛️ ow.ly/uOuz50ZgOgo

Physicists have measured the alpha decay of tellurium-104 for the first time. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/mJoC50ZgNQK

An artificial buffer made of photoionizing material released into space could help deflect potentially catastrophic solar storms. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/can-we-cre...

Demons might be mythical, but for hundreds of years these imaginary creatures have been fantastically useful for thinking about science and the humanities. Robert P Crease introduces you to the four different types in science and examines the role each plays.🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/meet-the-d...

So you thought the SI system of units was all neat and tidy with no loose ends? Ben Stein from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reveals some curious quirks of the system. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/the-intern...

A novel encapsulation technique lets researchers image the surface structure of an atomically thin topological quantum material for the first time. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/encapsulat...

Fresh analysis of supernovae data casts doubt on a recent study that suggested dark energy has been weakening since the early universe. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/qyA750ZfAuh

Researchers have demonstrated magnons that last for up to 18 µs - nearly two orders of magnitude longer than that previously observed for these quasiparticles. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-class-...

A new contact-free way of rotating delicate samples - such as biological cells - undergoing 3D optical microscopy increases the image resolution and could reveal more details about microscale structures and processes. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/laser-base...

Scientists have long wondered how Venus flytraps snap shut. Now, an important part of the mystery has been solved. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/venus-flyt...

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Researchers have characterized the neutron field in a proton therapy treatment room with a range of detectors - and used their findings to create a practical Python-based calculation tool to estimate neutron dose for arbitrary irradiations. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/easy-to-us...

Soot from rocket launches remains in the upper atmosphere much longer than soot produced by sources on the ground, making it "an unregulated geoengineering experiment" with poorly understood (but potentially serious) consequences for the Earth’s climate. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/soot-from-...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a striking weather pattern on a distant exoplanet. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/asymmetric...

Producing pairs of entangled photons usually requires a complex laser system, but researchers in China have shown that these crucial ingredients in #quantum optics experiments can come from a far more basic source: sunlight. 🧪⚛️💡 physicsworld.com/a/sunlight-c...

Been following the latest developments in physics? Test your knowledge in this Friday's Physics World Quiz of the Week. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/quiz-of-th...

Physicists have developed a model that predicts how gravitational-wave emission changes when a binary black hole system moves through dark matter. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/novel-grav...

Like a chameleon adapting its skin colours to its environment, a nonmagnetic material placed next to an altermagnet will acquire altermagnetic spin textures thanks to a theoretically-predicted proximity effect. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/altermagne...

How did the Milky Way form and what is its fate? Kavli Prize laureate Amina Helmi and astronomer Per Barth Lilje explain. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/1I7150Zat6X

With the FIFA World Cup starting today, see how much you now about the science of football in our new interactive quiz. There are 10 questions - see how you get on. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/its-all-ki...

We might have laughed when a robot completed the China E-Town half marathon recently, but the winner did it far faster than the equivalent race last year. But what does the result imply for the use of robots in manufacturing? Honor Powrie looks into things. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/how-ai-is-...

The arrangement of protons and neutrons inside atomic nuclei plays a much bigger role in nuclear pairing than previously thought. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/55K350Z9lXI

A new solar-thermal desalination technology produces drinking water from ocean water, while simultaneously capturing valuable salts and minerals. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/solar-ther...

A low-cost, non-contact diagnostic technique uses recordings of snoring sounds to detect obstructive sleep apnoea. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/abnormal-s...

Some animals could sense Earth’s magnetic field by using the superparamagnetic properties of white blood cells in their livers. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/iplS50Z7WXL

Occasionally, a bright theorist hypothesizes a way of distinguishing between Bohmian and Copenhagen interpretations of quantum mechanics. So what happened when a bright experimentalist conducted an experiment that claimed to actually do so? ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/experiment...

Looking for a summer read that covers everything from molecular gastronomy and Indigenous engineering to DNA analysis and cutting-edge medicine? Check out my review of "How the World Flows" over at @physicsworld.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/the-wonder...