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Inventors claim new microscope offers major advance for spintronics
Added: 21 Apr 2024
Developers responsible for a new microscope say its improved technology enables the instrument to v…
Science mourns Nobel physicist Higgs
Added: 14 Apr 2024
Tributes been made worldwide to Peter Higgs, the Nobel-winning physicist who gave his name to the H…
Plants and particles win Turlings and Shchutska top Swiss science awards
Added: 17 Sep 2023
Biologist Ted Turlings and physicist Lesya Shchutska are this year’s winners of the the two highest…
Quantum go-‘slow’ allows first view of chemical process
Added: 29 Aug 2023
Sydney university researchers have scored a scientific first by employing a quantum computer to obs…
STFC’s £90 million investment makes a material difference
Added: 25 Jun 2023
A £90 million investment programme for one of the country’s largest scale national laboratories has…
Quantum work ‘like turning omelettes into eggs’
Added: 22 Jan 2023
Microscopy and communications could be enhanced by adapting new techniques for improving quantum te…
Secret of antimatter creation in cosmic collisions revealed
Added: 14 Apr 2022
At the Quark Matter conference and Rencontres de Moriond conferences, the LHCb collaboration presen…
So... What is the point of physics? IOP is offering £1000 for the best answer!
Added: 7 Apr 2022
IoP launches a new challenge to get young people to see physics differently. With only one in ten p…
Scientists design remote monitoring system for inaccessible quantum devices
Added: 1 Apr 2022
Researchers have developed an innovative remote monitoring system for ultra-sensitive quantum devic…
Hybrid atom response at CERN may lead to new forms of antimatter
Added: 25 Mar 2022
A hybrid matter–antimatter helium atom containing an antiproton, the proton’s antimatter equivale…
CERN environmental report sets out concrete actions to reduce its environmental footprint
Added: 25 Nov 2021
CERN released its second public Environment Report covering the years 2019-2020 when the accelerato…
Groundbreaking technique may lead to discovery of 'fifth force'
Added: 13 Sep 2021
A group of researchers have used a groundbreaking new technique to reveal previously unrecognised p…
Decades of research brings quantum dots to brink of widespread use
Added: 18 Aug 2021
A new article in Science magazine gives an overview of almost three decades of research into colloi…
Combining classical and quantum computing opens door to new discoveries
Added: 17 Jun 2021
New approaches are needed to lay the pathway to efficient and effective quantum computing. Now, res…
Electron microscopy just became a thousand times more efficient
Added: 3 Jun 2021
Imaging a million samples a second to make electron microscopy a thousand times more efficient, the…
Record quantum entanglement rates: A step closer to the Quantum Internet
Added: 2 Jun 2021
In a landmark step for quantum communications, researchers have achieved record entanglement rates …
Commercial quanta image sensors - a new era in solid-state imaging
Added: 27 May 2021
Solid-state technology capable of imaging individual photons of light to enable full-speed photon c…
First virtual symposium on quantum technology, semiconductors, and power generation
Added: 24 May 2021
Oxford Instruments plc is pleased to announce its first Virtual Symposium on Quantum Technology, Se…
CERN results may violate the standard model of particle physics
Added: 23 Mar 2021
New results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, beauty (LHCb) strengthen hints of a violation of lep…
A novel light harvesting engine strings buckyballs and chromophores on DNA
Added: 26 Feb 2021
Researchers have synthesised a novel type of organic light-harvesting supramolecule by arranging fl…
