In the past three decades astronomers have discovered more than 6000 exoplanets – planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Many of these exoplanets are very unlike the eight planets of the solar ...

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A backpack equipped with gyroscopes shows promise as a balance aid for people with the movement disorder ataxia and could one day remove the need for cumbersome mobility aids ...

IMAP, which is 2.4 m in diameter and almost 1 m high, will also support real-time observations of the solar wind and ...

Solving major regional and global environmental problems is a key part of sociopolitics and so environmental physics has a special role to play in the public arena. It gives students the chance to ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK have created an ultrasensitive magnetometer based on nitrogen-vacancy ...

The Dutch manufacturer Delft Circuits is rewriting the rules of I/O cabling technology for full-stack quantum computing systems ...

Elizabeth Pasatembou and Dimitrie Cielecki discuss their experience of doing science policy engagement during their PhDs ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ...

How do we create a digital version of the vellum and clay tablets that successfully preserved information in earlier ages of human history?

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help sniff out questionable open-access publications that are more interested in profit ...