Physics News Articles

Observations of a massive neutron star in a compact stellar binary in outer space confirm general relativity theory.

Biofuels – often suggested as low or no carbon alternatives to fossil – may not be as green as they seem.

As you increase an LED's power, the efficiency tends to droop. A team of researchers have worked out why.

Strange motion of water molecules mixed with nanotubes and carbon isotopes. What could the applications of this new...

German scientists have designed a high-efficiency, low-cost lithium-sulphur battery...

An analysis of data collected by the Planck Telescope supports a period of rapid expansion shortly after the big bang...

Scientists have produced a bendy battery that can stretch elastically to three times its normal length without...

A team of US scientists have developed a flexible battery than can be stretched to three times its size without...

This month has seen the MARS2013 simulation underway in a desert in the Northern Sahara...

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

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

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

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

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....

A free-floating planet has been discovered in space...

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...