Generating and detecting sound waves remotely means patients can be spared the discomfort that sometimes comes with conventional ultrasound imaging
Read article: Laser ultrasound enables diagnoses at a distance
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound could be used to target blood cancer or circulating tumour cells
Read article: Tuned ultrasound selectively disrupts the structure of cancer cells
About 80% of Chinese scientists who have gone abroad to study or work in the previous decade have returned home
Read article: Chinese researchers returning home in greater numbers
Sweeping changes to US university-level teaching in physics and astronomy are required to address the long-running and systemic exclusion of African Americans
Read article: African American physics students need more support, says report
New technique could be used to design a wide range of optical devices
Read article: Artificial intelligence reveals how light flows around nanoparticles
Laboratory experiment suggests that intermediate-mass stars expire via thermonuclear explosions
Read article: Forbidden nuclear transition sheds light on how some stars die
A microneedle patch containing fluorescent quantum dots invisibly encodes vaccination history in the skin
Read article: Invisible dye embeds vaccination records on skin
Joe McEntee visits Leeds to talk to Megan Povey about a career devoted to the science of food
Read article: You are what you eat
New technique could lead to all-optical computers
Read article: Photon frequency doubler is controlled by light
Huygens was first to notice that pairs of linked pendulums can swing in synchrony. But as Jonatan Pena Ramirez and Henk Nijmeijer explain, mystery still surrounds the behaviour of synchronized pendulums
Read article: The secret of the synchronized pendulums
