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 ...

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

New device could not only be the best time-keeper ever, it could also revolutionize fundamental physics studies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A team of US-based researchers has developed an inexpensive and ultrathin metasurface that, when paired with a neural network ...

Experiment and theory concur The data obtained at the ISIS neutron source (right) are in excellent agreement with the results of a theoretical analysis using the PFFRG method (left). (Courtesy: HZB) A ...

Welcome to Physics World Big Science Briefing, which includes news, features and opinion about the latest developments and issues in “big science”. Over the past decades, big science has become bigger ...