Physics News Articles

Solar heat has been used to power air conditioning

Tiny gold rods may give us almost complete control over light waves.

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered how coffee spills evaporate to leave hollow circular...

Completely stretchy light emitting devices have been built.

Researchers working on fragments of a large meteorite that exploded over Lake Tagish in Canada back in the year 2000...

Jupiter's moon Io is known to be highly volcanically active - now, data collected by the Gallileo craft looking at...

Up to half of all hot Jupiters may orbit their parent star contrary to the star's direction of rotation. New...

Results from Gravity Probe B test and support Einstein's theories of relativity - and have only been 50 years in...

A material that temporarily transforms itself into a "permanent" magnet when a small voltage is applied has...

By studying the wobbles of a compound called ytterbium flouride in an electric field, scientists have discovered the...

Earlier this month, a major conference was held at the Geological Society in London to discuss something that will not...

Two predictions made from general relativity in 1918 have been finally tested...

Researchers at CERN have managed to trap anti-hydrogen atoms for longer than ever before...

At just one centimetre across, the box jellyfish makes a poor contender for being a paragon of intellect. But now new...

Flaps on wind turbines may make wind power more economic

Fridges that are powered by heat are being improved

A strange anomaly in the movement of the Pioneer probes may have been explained

With a breakthrough that could hasten the arrival of a new generation of even more powerful microprocessors, scientists...

High temperature cables can save weight and energy, but the problem is they are brittle, and difficult to get around...

This week scientists from China have identified an environmentally-friendly way of making acrylic acid. Typically,...

Does Jupiter protect Earth from asteroid impact? A new study evaluates the myth that the giant planet acts as our...

Photons that can be stored and emitted from a crystal could be the next step in realising quantum communication. It...

Gamma Ray Bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe - but only around half of them are associated...

A new instrument aboard the SWIFT orbiting telescope has shed new light on the cause of "dark" gamma ray...