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Science mourns Nobel physicist Higgs

April 13, 2024
Tributes been made worldwide to Peter Higgs, the Nobel-winning physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson subatomic particle and whose work altered understanding of the universe.

Secret of antimatter creation in cosmic collisions revealed

April 14, 2022
At the Quark Matter conference and Rencontres de Moriond conferences, the LHCb collaboration presented an analysis of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that may help determine whether...

So… What is the point of physics? IOP is offering £1000 for the best answer!

April 7, 2022
IoP launches a new challenge to get young people to see physics differently. With only one in ten parents believing physics to be a worthwhile topic, and nearly half of...

Scientists design remote monitoring system for inaccessible quantum devices

April 1, 2022
Researchers have developed an innovative remote monitoring system for ultra-sensitive quantum devices reliant on stable conditions. The new system provides a blueprint for operating quantum technology in inaccessible environments, such...

Hybrid atom response at CERN may lead to new forms of antimatter

March 25, 2022
A hybrid matter­­–antimatter helium atom containing an antiproton, the proton’s antimatter equivalent in place of an electron, has an unexpected response to laser light when immersed in superfluid helium, reports...

CERN environmental report sets out concrete actions to reduce its environmental footprint

November 25, 2021
CERN released its second public Environment Report covering the years 2019-2020 when the accelerator complex was in its second long shutdown. To ensure transparency and to demonstrate its leadership in...

Commercial quanta image sensors – a new era in solid-state imaging

May 27, 2021
Solid-state technology capable of imaging individual photons of light to enable full-speed photon counting at room temperature is now accessible commercially. The CMOS-based QIS devices use patented sensor architecture and...

Industrialisation of fundamental physics research advances light source and sensor technologies

March 29, 2021
Collaboration between specialist academic research and industrial expert engineers is proving key to the accelerated transfer of research knowledge from lab to market and the advancement of real world light...

Not just a droplet: Explaining one dimensional quantum liquid formation

January 22, 2021
A new type of quantum droplet - the most dilute liquids ever experimentally observed - helps unravel the mechanism leading to the formation of one dimensional self-bound quantum liquids in...

Graphene researchers throw physics out the window

November 16, 2020
A Manchester University graphene research team has just thrown the physics textbook out of the proverbial window. Fundamental physics teaches us that the trajectory of an electron will bend under...

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