Read article: What atomic-layer deposition could do for energy and the environment
The vacuum-based technique of atomic-layer deposition – a variant of chemical-vapour deposition – holds much promise for energy and environmental applications
Read article: Uroš Cvelbar: why bioscientists are inspired by plasma processing
Why has plasma processing captured the imagination of bioscientists so strongly and what triggered its rapid rise in popularity?
Read article: Preserving the past: using physics to save early photographs
Physicists have joined the battle to stop daguerreotypes – a prized, early form of photograph – from degrading any further, as Stephen Ornes reports
Read article: A light-connected world
Harald Haas explains how ordinary LED light bulbs could become our portals to the digital world thanks to a new wireless communications network that uses visible light
Read article: Pathway to Planet Nine
Konstantin Batygin explains what led him and astronomer Mike Brown to propose the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system
Read article: Extraterrestrial light shows
Sarah Badman explains how observations of auroras on other planets are revealing new facts about these fascinating and beautiful phenomena
Read article: Brave new Jupiter
With NASA’s Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter this July, Stephen Ornes reports on what scientists have in store for this distant probe
Read article: Could on-chip quantum frequency combs lead to scalable quantum computers?
By integrating quantum frequency combs into glass chips, researchers have taken an important step towards a scalable quantum computer
Read article: Keeping our data safe: optical memory enters the 5D realm
Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data for billions of years
Read article: Widening our view of the universe: NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope
NASA is designing an ambitious near-infrared space observatory with a field of view up to 200 times greater than that of Hubble
