Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Houston have achieved sustained self-healing of a composite material. The findings promise to extend the lifetime of aircraft and ...

Systems governed by chemistry and physics, not biology, can behave in surprisingly lifelike ways, as Giorgio Volpe, Rob ...

In a breakthrough in droplet physics, researchers find a way to get centimetre-scale water droplets to jump into the air ...

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Particle therapy experts gathered in London to discuss the transformative potential of laser-driven proton and ion beams ...

Scientists across the world are finding that global warming could cause extreme changes in earthquakes and volcanic activity.

Low-power optical device achieves around 100 times amplification using just a couple of hundred milliwatts of input power ...

A consultancy firm with expertise in radiation safety can help companies developing a new generation of commercial fusion reactors to navigate the regulatory framework ...

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel ...

Mulugeta Bekele is almost single-handedly responsible for having kept Ethiopian physics going in the 1970s and 1980s despite being imprisoned and tortured by the Ethiopian military. Robert P Crease ...

Integrating metamaterials into radiofrequency antennas improves image sharpness and enables faster data acquisition using ...

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