Sixteenth-century Europe was a place of great change. Religious upheaval swept the continent, empires expanded and the mystic ...

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Ahead of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics, Physics World editors recall amusing brushes with Nobel laureates past and present. Matin Durrani kicks off by remembering what it was like to interview the ...

Getting together: The event on 1 October was attended by 38 national delegations as well as Her Royal Highness the Princess Astrid of Belgium and the President of the European Commission (courtesy: ...

The School of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) sits within Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Applied Sciences. Its ...

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Physicists have observed the Zel’dovich effect in an electromagnetic system – something that was thought to be incredibly difficult to do until now. This observation, in a simplified induction ...

But if you want to understand a herd or a flock, you can learn a lot by reducing individual animals to mere particles – if ...

That’s according to a study by physicists in China and the US, who say their finding points to a decline in overall ...

Despite the visual similarities, however, sea ice and tea scum break up through different physical mechanisms. While ice is brittle, bending and snapping under the weight of crushing waves, the ...