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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…

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…

Greening the lab: first net zero mass spectrometer launched
Added: 5 Oct 2021
As part of an initiative to permanently remove CO₂ emissions associated with the manufacture and su…

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…

EV design concept capable of 30% longer range
Added: 1 Jun 2021
Automotive innovation start-up has revealed a patented design concept for an electric vehicle capab…

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…

X-ray Ptychography performed for first time at small-scale Laboratory Source
Added: 21 May 2021
X-ray ptychography has been used to perform high-resolution phase contrast diffraction imaging on s…

Research points to a green energy system sooner than we'd hoped!
Added: 1 Apr 2021
Research shows solar photovoltaics are already cheaper, more innovative, and more integrated into t…

Industrialisation of fundamental physics research advances light source and sensor technologies
Added: 29 Mar 2021
Collaboration between specialist academic research and industrial expert engineers is proving key t…

'Team ice' uncover crucial information to aid the development of new more active cryoprotectants
Added: 17 Mar 2021
Researchers uncover new understanding around the interactions between synthetic polymers and ice fo…

Long-life, long-range, rapid recharging, affordable electric car battery
Added: 21 Jan 2021
Go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3 seconds and drive like a Porsche... Electric car batteries t…

Uncovering the magic of metallographic Turing pattern formation
Added: 19 Jan 2021
While we have become used to seeing stripes and spots in nature, it still seems amazing to see simi…

Graphene researchers throw physics out the window
Added: 16 Nov 2020
A Manchester University graphene research team has just thrown the physics textbook out of the prov…

Multishot lens-free imaging could aid disease diagnosis
Added: 24 Sep 2020
A new type of imaging that does not require a lens and uses reconfigurable particle-based masks to …

Orbitronics: the next step for Moore’s Law?
Added: 19 May 2020
SLAC scientists have broken the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states, opening …

Higgs Spectroscopy: A new method to measure superconductors
Added: 13 May 2020
From sustainable energy to quantum computers: high-temperature superconductors have the potential t…
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