Physics News Stories

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...

A new extra high density ultracapacitor has been built with a similar energy density to batteries.

Saturn’s rings may have originated from a satellite that was stripped of its surface ice when it moved perilously close...

A Bose-Einstein condensate of photons has been produced that works at room temperature.

Spectral analysis has confirmed the sighting of the most distant galaxy ever seen, at a red shift of z=8.6...

Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been colliding lead ions - allowing us to get an idea of conditions in...

New evidence from Galaxy Zoo suggests that galaxies with a central bar are more likely to contain older, red stars,...

As any parents, aunties or uncles know full well, kids get much more tired out simply walking around than adults do,...

We’ve been living alongside cats for thousands of years but it’s taken until now to fully understand how they perform...

A team of astronomers have successfully looked back about 13 billion years to pinpoint one of the first galaxies to...

Research is discovering cheaper alternatives to gold plated connectors...

A trick of the light looks set to assist drug squads in their attempts to crack down on smugglers who are dissolving...

The best way of making solar electricity cheaper is to get more electricity per square metre of panel. Now researchers...

A paper published this week in the Astrophysical Journal presents the first direct observations of small asteroids in...

Green fuels, like bioethanol, produced by yeast fermentation of plant sugars can be used to cut greenhouse gas...

Some evidence has been found of the fine structure constant... varying.

A new high voltage way to clean your solar cells with less water and elbow grease involved.

New solid batteries could store more energy for longer without catching fire.