In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, we meet a trio of scientists who are involved in different projects at the Fraunhofer...

A new phenomenon whereby the energy from light confined to a nanocavity can “pluck” atoms from a gold surface, allowing them to form complexes...

Topological insulators for light have been created using fractal patterns instead of conventional lattice structures. The fractal photonic topological insulators (PTIs) were made by...

Researchers at Xanadu, a Canadian company specializing in photonic quantum computing, claim to have achieved quantum computational advantage with an experiment run on their...

A continuous Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) has been produced by researchers in the Netherlands. Claimed as a first, the achievement has been sought for years...

Large increase in light output could lead to better medical imaging

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In this podcast we talk about the wonders of glass, removing biases in publishing and an award-winning start up

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