Physics News Articles

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

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.

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

A new more efficient way of converting carbon-dioxide back to carbon has been invented that uses solar energy very...

New research published in the journal Nature suggests that the proton might be as much as 4% smaller than we previously...

Scientists might have to re-write the quantum rule book thanks to a new series of experiments which have shown that the...

A new type of blast-proof curtain that gets thicker, not thinner, when stretched is being developed to provide better...

Something which has always tantalised many people ranging from surveillance agencies to the more dubious parts of...

A European team of scientists may have discovered a shortcut to finding distant planets orbiting far-off stars - you...

Unwinding sticky-tape produces terahertz waves that might play a useful role in airport security...

Scientists have proved that jockeys are justified in adopting their uncomfortable race riding postures...