Handheld optical coherence tomography device will make diagnosis and monitoring of eye diseases more affordable and accessible
Read article: Siloton secures £8.4m to speed development of portable retinal imaging system
The Large-Sized Telescope will provide new insights into the early universe
Read article: Officials celebrate completion of gamma-ray telescope array in La Palma
Cirac is honoured for contributions to modern quantum information science
Read article: Quantum physicist Ignacio Cirac awarded 2026 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
Astroparticle physicist wins for his work detecting cosmic neutrinos
Read article: Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel are joint winners of the 2026 prize
Read article: Inventors of optogenetics win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Launched at ASTRO 2026, the high-speed Accela platform can deliver stereotactic treatments in a single breath-hold
Read article: Siemens Healthineers unveils ultrafast Accela radiotherapy system
Hexagonal close-packed phase could exist deep within the planets Uranus and Neptune, contributing to their peculiar magnetic fields
Read article: New type of superionic water ice observed for the first time
New study places a quantum limit on how fast a system can reach a state of thermal equilibrium
Read article: Your beer can only cool so fast. Blame quantum mechanics
Analysis of cloud-related atmospheric effects could be an important factor in designing future wind farms
Read article: Low-level clouds could make wind farms more efficient
Quantum simulation goes beyond traditional models
Read article: Gluon string breaking is simulated using trapped ions
First observation of fundamental quantization in mechanical vibrations could have applications in quantum error correction and protein diagnostics
Read article: Sound waves come in quantum jumps
Researchers report encouraging findings from the first clinical cohort of blind people treated with optogenetic therapy
Read article: Optogenetic therapy shows promise for vision restoration
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Indu Satija celebrates the golden anniversary of Hofstadter’s butterfly
Read article: Hofstadter’s butterfly turns 50: a fractal hiding in quantum matter
Preetish Kakoty describes why India's only Nobel-prize-winning physicist went to Sweden on a whim
Read article: C V Raman: the physicist with a ‘Himalayan ego’ who went to Stockholm convinced he’d win a Nobel prize
Richard de Grijs looks at how the Roman Space Telescope will change astronomy forever
Read article: How the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will turn the sky into a dataset
The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches
Read article: How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills
Chris Sinclair explores the plays that are bringing physics to new audiences
Read article: Theatre is bringing physics to new audiences but what is the definitive science play?
Tushna Commissariat and Matin Durrani guide physics students through the maze of career options
Read article: From student to scientist – how to build a career with physics
A week-long meeting in Cambridge celebrated Masao Doi’s and Luca Peliti’s pioneering framework to study random processes
Read article: When Doi met Peliti: physicists celebrate 50 years of the Doi-Peliti theory
International researchers can face many challenges when trying to settle in another country
Read article: Why supporting international colleagues is everyone’s responsibility
Work will go on display at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow
Read article: Scottish artist marks 100 years of Schrödinger equation with new installation
Yukawa laid the foundation for an active post-war generation of particle physicists in Japan
Read article: Particle physicist Hideki Yukawa: Japan’s first Nobel laureate
Matin Durrani looks at the work of Abdus Salam, who was born a century ago this year
Read article: Abdus Salam: Pakistan’s first (and so far only) physics Nobel prize-winner
Deciding where a prize winner is from can be tricky, but Hamish Johnston tries his best
Read article: How long did it take for countries to claim a Nobel laureate?
Innovative scintillation detectors are pushing the boundaries of radiation detection, unlocking unprecedented speed, accuracy and clarity in a range of fields
Read article: Scintillating technology: how advanced lanthanum bromide crystals are transforming radiation detection
Qubit decoherence remains the primary barrier to many practical quantum devices. This is why vacuum and cryogenic equipment scaling are key enablers to delivering useful quantum pr...
Read article: Engineering the unknown: building vacuum and cryogenic systems for the quantum frontier
The Quantum Fringe filled the summer with inspiring events for students, scientists and the public, and celebrated the third anniversary of Edinburgh's Quantum Software Lab
Read article: Festival season finds Quantum Software Lab in high spirits
Robert P Crease sees three ways to respond to attacks on physics
Read article: The unsavoury rise of ‘populist physics’: here’s how best to respond
Andrew Glester reviews the film Mercy, directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Read article: Demon in the AI machine: bias, bad data and the burden of proof
Honor Powrie pays tribute to the work of tribologists
Read article: The secret world of tribology
Margaret Harris reviews Trinity: an Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test
Read article: Illuminating, beautiful and disturbing: a photographic record of the Trinity atomic test
Robert P Crease discovers the true extent of materials science in a dental lab
Read article: Get your teeth into the cutting edge of materials science
Students need to experiment with real quantum-computing systems, says Alex Krasnok
Read article: Universities should judge quantum-computing investments by what students learn
Tania Kendrick is a civil servant in the UK’s Cabinet Office
Read article: Ask me anything: Tania Kendrick – ‘There’s something really satisfying when everything starts to click’
Kiefer Vermeulen is research team lead at Delft Circuits in the Netherlands
Read article: Ask me anything: Kiefer Vermeulen – ‘We had to figure everything out on a shoestring budget and on a really challenging timescale’
Kristian Dominek Barajas is head of quantum theory at Oxford Ionics, an IonQ company
Read article: Ask me anything: Kristian Dominek Barajas – ‘I’m able to take a really complicated problem and give it my best guess’
Gleb Yakubov talks to Sarah Bridle a physicist who has studied food at the University of York
Read article: From galaxies to groceries: how Sarah Bridle made the switch from cosmology to food
Mary Bishai is an experimental neutrino physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US
Read article: Ask me anything: Mary Bishai – ‘For a self-professed nerd like me, doing big science is heaven’
Paul Howarth is set to be IOP president until 2029
Read article: Institute of Physics president Paul Howarth outlines his vision for physics
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