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By adapting their quantum twisting microscope to operate at cryogenic temperatures, researchers have made the first ...

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The full version of Henney’s story will be published in the Physics World Quantum Briefing 2025 – a free-to-read digital ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

By using bilayers of recently-discovered materials known as altermagnets, the researchers developed a tuneable and ...

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ...

Most of us have heard of Schrödinger’s eponymous cat, but it is not the only feline in the quantum physics bestiary. Quantum ...

Researchers in Singapore and the US have independently developed two new types of photonic computer chips that match existing ...

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A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human ...

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