“Until now, we thought that solids could not exist above about three times their melting temperatures,” White says. “Our results show that if we heat a material rapidly – that is, before it has time ...

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

Jonathan Edwards, who originally studied physics at Durham University, still holds the men’s world record for the triple-jump. Edwards broke the record twice on 7 August 1995 at the World Athletics ...

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

Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

Driven by global warming The researchers identified which factors influence the jet stream in the southern hemisphere. (Courtesy: Leipzig University/Office for University Communications) An ...

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

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

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

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A seismic detector in your pocket: This map shows the global distribution of earthquakes detected and alerted. (Courtesy: Google) The global network of Android smartphones makes a useful earthquake ...