Physics

Nikola Tesla seated in his Colorado Springs laboratory as long electrical discharges arc across the room, 1899 (multiple-exposure photograph)

27/03/2024
Semiconductors & Electronics

Tesla vs Edison: The Rivalry of the Ages

A blackboard preserved from a 1931 lecture by Albert Einstein at Oxford, covered in his chalk equations

27/03/2024
Particle Physics

Albert Einstein’s Discoveries: 9 Breakthroughs That Changed History

21/12/2023
Particle Physics

Are Photons Matter? The Answer Has an Error Bar

A silicon wafer

12/12/2023
Semiconductors & Electronics

How Radiation Damage Degrades Silicon Detectors (And How Physicists Fight It)

A green laser beam passing through a lens doublet held in mounts on an optical bench, the lenses glowing in a dark laboratory

08/11/2023
Semiconductors & Electronics

Optical Computing: Could Light Replace Electricity in Your Next Computer?

The Holmdel Horn Antenna at Bell Labs in New Jersey, photographed in 1962, two years before it picked up the cosmic microwave background

21/08/2023
Cosmology & Astrophysics

The Cosmic Microwave Background: The Big Bang’s Leftover Fingerprint

A magnet levitating above a superconductor chilled with liquid nitrogen, the Meissner effect, with cold vapour drifting off the sample

18/08/2023
Science

Room Temperature Superconductors Are Now Possible: Check How

The first image of a black hole: a glowing orange ring of hot gas around the dark shadow of the supermassive black hole in galaxy M87, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope

15/08/2023
Quantum Physics

The Astonishing Holographic Principle: Is Reality a 2D Projection?

A researcher peers into the vacuum chamber of a four-probe scanning tunnelling microscope, an instrument that works by measuring quantum tunnelling current

14/08/2023
Quantum Physics

Quantum Tunnelling: Can it Lead to the Remarkable Faster-Than-Light Travel?

13/08/2023
Quantum Physics

Max Planck’s Impact on the Birth of Quantum Physics

The Large Hadron Collider's magnets receding along its 27 km tunnel, with the side tunnel that houses the FASER experiment at left

13/08/2023
Opinions

CERN’s Future Circular Collider: A Huge Mistake?

Detail of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889): swirling brushstrokes in the night sky above a dark cypress, with a crescent moon at right

13/08/2023
Lifestyle

What Did Van Gogh Know About Quantum Physics?

Blue superconducting dipole magnets of the Large Hadron Collider curving away along the underground tunnel at CERN

04/08/2023
Particle Physics

What Happens at CERN? Understanding the Science of the LHC

10 Mind-Blowing Facts about the LHC

27/07/2023
Particle Physics

10 Mind-Blowing Facts about the LHC That You Will Never Know

A blue laser beam crosses the optics of JILA's three-dimensional strontium lattice clock, one of the atomic clocks precise enough to register time running at different rates

26/07/2023
Quantum Physics

Is Time Travel Actually Possible? What Physics and Black Holes Say