Physics News Articles

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...

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

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

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

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....

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...

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