Jonathan Edwards, who originally studied physics at Durham University, still holds the men’s world record for the triple-jump. Edwards broke the record twice on 7 August 1995 at the World Athletics ...

Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

Chalsani talks about the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre technology campus that being developed on the ...

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New findings help meteorologists better understand the physical mechanisms driving climate change, particularly the role of ...

A series of events called the Quantum Fringe has enabled everyone from school students and the interested public to ...

A team of researchers from the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, China, have developed a new framework for modelling strongly correlated topological insulators A material's band structure can ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...

The space scientist Michele Dougherty from Imperial College London has been appointed the next Astronomer Royal – the first ...