‘Can’t get you out of my head’: using earworms to teach physics
Physics teacher Kate Urell uses catchy tunes to help her students remember their lessons
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Yale researcher says levitated spheres could spot neutrinos ‘within months’
David Moore claims his table-top set-up is on the cusp of detecting ghostly particles, reports Matin Durrani
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Helgoland researchers seek microplastics and microfibres in the sea
Matin Durrani takes a tour of the Biological Institute Helgoland
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Quantum island: why Helgoland is a great spot for fundamental thinking
Matin Durrani explains why delegates at Helgoland 2025 are discussing foundational questions in quantum mechanics
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Quartet of Nobel laureates sign Helgoland’s ‘gold book’
Matin Durrani explains the unexpected message left by Anton Zeilinger
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Conference marking 100 years of quantum mechanics starts in Hamburg
Matin Durrani reports from the first day of the Helgoland 2025 meeting
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There’s an elephant in the room at the Royal Society – and for once, it’s not (just) Elon Musk
A conference on the future of the UK space sector makes stunningly little mention of how proposed cuts to NASA funding might affect it
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The evolution of the metre: How a product of the French Revolution became a mainstay of worldwide scientific collaboration
Physics World corresponding editor Isabelle Dumé reports from a Paris symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Metre Convention
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Former IOP president Cyril Hilsum celebrates 100th birthday
Hilsum is responsible for creating the UK's first semiconductor laser
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Universe may end much sooner than predicted, say theorists
New estimate suggests that the most persistent stellar objects may decay away via Hawking radiation within the next 10^78 years
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