Physics News Articles

Since their discovery cosmic rays have been a mystery. Now, an orbiting gamma-ray telescope has managed to identify...

A group of US and Chinese researchers have developed a generator that can convert footsteps into electrical power...

Still glowing from one of the scientific discoveries of the decade - the Higgs boson - the Large Hadron Collider at...

A group of Korean researchers have produced flexible films of thermoelectric material that can generate electricity...

The resolution of magnetic resonance imaging could be about to go up several notches thanks to a new, nanoscale imaging...

Porcupine quills penetrate skin better than a hypodermic needle because of tiny backwards-facing barbs at their tips....

The light-emitting tails of fireflies have revealed a way for scientists to create more efficient LEDs.

Nature has inspired researchers to make brighter, more efficient LEDs, by copying the structure of a firefly’s rear end.

There is a mystery surrounding the amount of infrared light that bathes the universe –the so called cosmic infrared...

A group of researchers from Bristol University have discovered that the optical properties of a fish’s skin seem be...

This week has seen planetary scientists gathering in Madrid for the European Planetary Science Congress, and several...

In a giant leap for technology, scientists have doubled the electricity-producing efficiency of the thermoelectric...

A superhydrophobic layer repels water from hot metal and prevents it boiling...

A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are...

The journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated to the subject of black hole research, and we look at what...

A new way of doing microscopic origami has been developed.

Researchers in the US have sequenced the genome of particular species of fungus that can turn cellulose into biofuel...

Astronomers have caught their best glimpse yet of a star being ripped to pieces by a supermassive black hole.

Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D...

Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands,...

Scientists have taken the first steps towards interrogating antimatter to discover whether its spectroscopic...

By combining two existing technologies, researchers in America have devised a novel way to generate electricity from...

Astronomers have found compelling evidence for life in the Universe – but only on Earth. Using a phenomenon known as...