1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (298+ words) I am an online editor of Physics World. I did a Ph D in condensed-matter physics at Mc Master University in Canada. I am still fascinated by what is an extremely rich and varied subject that I believe is ignored…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (215+ words) Quiz of the week: what's the secret to the Venus flytrap's swift closure? Physics World - Enter password Show password Password field is now showing your password - Access more than 20 years of online content - Manage which e-mail newsletters you want to…...

1+ week, 19+ min ago  (80+ words) In the latest of our series of bite-sized reviews, Physics World editors give their verdicts on new science titles Soviet Scientific Institutes By Eric Lusito Meet the Neighbours: Life on Mars and How to Find It By Steven A Benner…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (384+ words) Thanks to new "transit" observations of the hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-94 A b using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US have discovered a striking weather pattern on this distant world. Their work…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (258+ words) A spectacular new lunar art installation has been installed at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Dubbed Mirror Moon it has been created by British artist Luke Jerram and is open for public display today at the observatory. The artwork is 2 m…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (232+ words) To understand what these signatures may look like, an international team of researchers developed a model for gravitational-wave emission from a binary black hole system moving through dark matter. Developing their model required meticulous numerical relativity simulations, but ensuring their…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (173+ words) The 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics is awarded to Vasily Belokurov, Amina Helmi and Rodrigo Ibata, "for uncovering the fossil evidence of past mergers proving that the Milky Way galaxy was built through hierarchical accretion. Belokurov is at the UK's University…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago  (405+ words) Astronomer Jessica Dempsey has become director-general of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), which will be the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope when it opens next year. Dempsey will now serve a five-year term as director-general and succeeds…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (577+ words) New IOP president Paul Howarth tells Michael Banks that communicating the relevance of physics to society has never been more important With a Ph D in nuclear physics, Paul Howarth has had a long career in the nuclear sector, working…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (668+ words) Under normal conditions, quarks " the particles that make up protons and neutrons " are tightly bound together by gluons, which carry the strong nuclear force. But at extremely high temperatures, matter changes into a radically different form in which quarks and…...