IntroductionOn December 11, 2021, a beam of gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — slammed into NASA’s Swift satellite. Within 120...

Physics World is delighted to announce its top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2023, which ranges from research in astronomy...

For the first time, particle physicists have observed the simultaneous production of a photon and...

A cosmic-ray particle with an energy about 36 million times greater than the particles accelerated...

Proton therapy is an increasingly popular cancer treatment that offers superior dose shaping to conventional photon radiotherapy. This high-precision dose delivery,...

Innovation in proton therapy was front-and-centre at the ASTRO Annual Meeting, along with advances in other cutting-edge modalities – among them...

Sidney Perkowitz delves into the cutting-edge work being done to make brain–computer interfaces safer, more durable and widely available ...

In a thorough review of proton collision data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists...

Physicists working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN have observed entanglement between pairs of top...

Writing requires a substrate, like clay or paper, to fix the written lines and letters...

ProtonMail. (see Jordan Graham story) (Staff photo by Stuart Cahill) (Photo by Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)MediaNews Group via Getty ImagesI...

Antimatter does not “fall up”, but rather responds to the gravitational pull of the Earth...