IntroductionDear Readers, Last July, I read this memo to the staff and explained why I had made the difficult decision to move on from my...

Physics World’s office is a long way from the path of totality for yesterday’s solar eclipse, which covered a swathe of North America from...

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 06 Apr 2024 The IQT The Hague conference, a pivotal gathering for quantum technology...

Preliminary observations made by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) hint that the acceleration of the expansion of the universe has not been constant...

Roughly one in 12 main-sequence binary stars may have ingested a planet at some point in its past, say astronomers in Australia. This conclusion,...

IntroductionPhysicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with...

Scientists and engineers have announced the completion of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) – the largest camera ever built. Taking almost...

Black holes are known for ferocious gravitational fields. Anything wandering too close, even light, will be swallowed up. But other forces may be at...

Dark matter is a ghostly substance that astronomers have failed to detect for decades, yet which we know has an enormous influence on normal...

A Compton camera has been used to measure the polarization of gamma rays in a nuclear physics experiment. This was done by a team...

IntroductionIn 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an Earth-size rocky planet. Knowing of no way that phosphine could be...

Gravastars, hypothetical alternatives to black holes, could end up nested inside one another like a Russian Matryoshka doll  – according to new calculations that...