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Home, green home: scientific solutions for cutting carbon and (maybe) saving money
Margaret Harris investigates the options for ditching fossil fuels as a source of domestic heat and electricity
Australian firm’s watery solution for solar power
A novel approach to the counterintuitive problem of solar farms receiving too much sunlight
Research updates
Neutrino fluids in supernovae could point to new physics
Self-interactions could affect neutrino signals from exploding stars
Fallout from nuclear weapons testing explains the ‘wild boar paradox’ of radioactive meat
Persistently high levels of caesium-137 in European wild boar are a legacy of early Cold War nuclear testing, not just Chornobyl, say researchers
Study in astronauts could improve health in space and on Earth
Long-duration spaceflights deplete red blood cells and bone, but the body recovers with the help of fat stored in the bone marrow
Cold atoms used to create reliable pressure gauge for ultrahigh vacuum
Device could be used in particle accelerators and gravitational-wave detectors
Researchers ‘tattoo’ gold nanopatterns onto live cells
New technique can print living cells and tissues with flexible arrays of gold nanodots and nanowires
Demon quasiparticle is detected 67 years after it was first proposed
Researchers observe Pines' demon unexpectedly after bombarding exotic metal with electrons
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Read article: Physics of carnivorous pitcher plants, daring nuclear-reactor mission in war-torn Vietnam
Physics of carnivorous pitcher plants, daring nuclear-reactor mission in war-torn Vietnam
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Read article: Co-review: supporting equal recognition
Co-review: supporting equal recognition
Join the audience for a live webinar on 27 September 2023 sponsored by IOP Publishing
Read article: Ask me anything: Cathy Foley – ‘I have lots of balls in the air on multiple projects’
Ask me anything: Cathy Foley – ‘I have lots of balls in the air on multiple projects’
Catherine Foley is a solid-state physicist who is currently the chief scientist of Australia
Read article: Delight as UK strikes deal to join the EU’s flagship Horizon Europe funding programme
Delight as UK strikes deal to join the EU’s flagship Horizon Europe funding programme
The UK will also join the EU’s Copernicus Earth-observation programme but not its Euratom fusion initiative
Read article: Colder: how physicists beat the theoretical limit for laser cooling and laid the foundations for a quantum revolution
Colder: how physicists beat the theoretical limit for laser cooling and laid the foundations for a quantum revolution
No experiment ever works better than theory says it should, but that’s exactly what happened in atomic physics in the late 1980s, as Chad Orzel describes
Read article: Powering the future: clean energy anywhere, anytime through energy harvesting materials
Powering the future: clean energy anywhere, anytime through energy harvesting materials
Join the audience for a live webinar on 26 September 2023, sponsored by IOP Publishing's journal, JPhys Materials
Read article: India launches its first mission to the Sun
India launches its first mission to the Sun
The Aditya-L1 craft will improve our understanding of solar activity including the solar wind and solar flares
Read article: Exciton–polaritons enhance magneto-optical responses in van der Waals crystals
Exciton–polaritons enhance magneto-optical responses in van der Waals crystals
Polariton energies are highly tunable using external magnetic fields and magnons
Read article: Superconducting ballet in Berkeley, physics of successful basketball free throws
Superconducting ballet in Berkeley, physics of successful basketball free throws
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Read article: Theorists unearth new link between entanglement and classical mechanics
Theorists unearth new link between entanglement and classical mechanics
Connecting the wave properties of light to the mechanical properties of point masses could help explain optical phenomena
Read article: Campus community mourns nanoscientist fatally shot at the University of North Carolina
Campus community mourns nanoscientist fatally shot at the University of North Carolina
Zijie Yan was an “outstanding professor, researcher and mentor” colleague says
Read article: Spatially offset OCT: counter-intuitive scheme delivers high-contrast imaging at depth
Spatially offset OCT: counter-intuitive scheme delivers high-contrast imaging at depth
Researchers in Denmark, Scotland and Australia have come up with an alternative take on optical coherence tomography
Read article: Aerosol geoengineering will not stop Antarctic ice sheet from melting, simulations suggest
Aerosol geoengineering will not stop Antarctic ice sheet from melting, simulations suggest
Emissions reduction is the only way to avoid catastrophic sea-level rise
Read article: Ferroelectric polymer goes elastic
Ferroelectric polymer goes elastic
New material might be employed in wearable electronics and implantable devices
Read article: Long-standing Physics World production editor and product manager, Dens Milne, dies aged 56
Long-standing Physics World production editor and product manager, Dens Milne, dies aged 56
Matin Durrani pays tribute to a much-admired and respected Physics World colleague, Dens Milne, who has died
Read article: New 2.5-dimensional structures observed in twisted graphite hybrids
New 2.5-dimensional structures observed in twisted graphite hybrids
Properties of bulk graphite become inextricably mixed with those of a 2D material stacked on top of it at a slight twist angle
Read article: Low-cost HPV test increases access to cervical cancer screening
Low-cost HPV test increases access to cervical cancer screening
A point-of-care test for HPV infections could provide affordable cervical cancer testing in low-resource settings
Read article: Memristors make versatile artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing
Memristors make versatile artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing
Simple heterojunction combines many functions in a single component
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