Researchers have previously shown that advanced ultra-intense femtosecond (10 -15 s) lasers can generate magnetic fields with strengths of up to several kilotesla. More recently, a suite of techniques ...

Travis Humble is director of the Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, US – which is run by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The centre links the capabilities ...

This episode of Physics World Stories explores a new book that restores women to the early history of quantum mechanics ...

“Until now, we thought that solids could not exist above about three times their melting temperatures,” White says. “Our results show that if we heat a material rapidly – that is, before it has time ...

Jonathan Edwards, who originally studied physics at Durham University, still holds the men’s world record for the triple-jump. Edwards broke the record twice on 7 August 1995 at the World Athletics ...

Chalsani talks about the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre technology campus that being developed on the ...

A series of events called the Quantum Fringe has enabled everyone from school students and the interested public to ...

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At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...

The space scientist Michele Dougherty from Imperial College London has been appointed the next Astronomer Royal – the first ...

Tucked away Illustration showing the position and size of the CONUS+ detector within the reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland.