Van Dishoeck talks about some of the key unanswered questions in astrochemistry, including how complex molecules form on the tiny specks of dust in interstellar space. We chat about the recent growth ...

Small levitating platforms that can stay airborne indefinitely at very high altitudes have been developed by researchers in the US and Brazil. Using photophoresis, the devices could be adapted to ...

Hybrid copper-halide-based emitters promise the best of both worlds, being both non-toxic and stable. They are also inexpensive, with tuneable optical properties and a high luminescence efficiency, ...

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

Researchers have previously shown that advanced ultra-intense femtosecond (10 -15 s) lasers can generate magnetic fields with strengths of up to several kilotesla. More recently, a suite of techniques ...

This episode of Physics World Stories explores a new book that restores women to the early history of quantum mechanics ...

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

Travis Humble is director of the Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, US – which is run by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The centre links the capabilities ...

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

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