NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just ...

Satyendra Nath Bose didn’t just make huge contributions to quantum science, he also welcomed women into what was at the time a male-dominated field. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta and Rupamanjari Ghosh discuss ...

The final result from the Muon g-2 Experiment has exceeded all expectations, achieving a precision likely to remain unmatched ...

Researchers in Japan have accelerated muons into the most precise, high-intensity beam to date, reaching energies high as 100 keV. The achievement could enable next-generation experiments such as ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

New architecture could be used to create tailored devices that emit or receive only certain frequencies of sound ...

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has unveiled a bioluminescent dress that features 125 million living algae. The garment ...

This podcast features an interview with Sara Alderweireldt, who is a physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN – the ...

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“The optical clock community is strongly motivated to obtain the best possible set of measurements before the SI second is ...