Physics News Articles

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...