Taken from the July 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. A decade after the announcement that the Higgs boson had been… [+3056 chars]
"Frog sex death trap" sounds like the worst heavy-metal band name ever, but it's an accurate description of what happened 45 million years ago in a swamp in Germany. The spot, a former coalfield, i… [+1582 chars]
Contact has been restored with a $US32.7 million ($A48.2 million) spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, NASA says. Communications with the craft were lost on Monday, afte… [+836 chars]
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new technique that allows scientists and engineers to, for the first time, visualize mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice. The re… [+4237 chars]
Solar-powered synthesis gas could recycle carbon dioxide into fuels and useful chemicals, an international team of researchers has shown. "If we can generate syngas from carbon dioxide utilizing onl… [+4057 chars]
Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has successfully completed its second commercial rocket launch with NASA from its Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory. A NASA Black Brant IX suborbi… [+1398 chars]
Contact has been restored with a $US32.7 million ($A48.2 million) spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, NASA says. Communications with the craft were lost on Monday, afte… [+865 chars]
While working out of a hotel room in Italy, astronaut Thomas Reiter commanded a four-wheeled robot to pick up rocks from the surface of an active volcano on the Sicilian east coast, and he did so whi… [+3863 chars]
Illustration of a solar diagram of an unevolved yellow star. /CAS Illustration of a solar diagram of an unevolved yellow star. /CAS Thanks to China's largest optical telescope, astronomers have dis… [+2404 chars]
Researchers are looking forward to a glimpse of colliding worlds in action from NASA's cutting-edge space observatory. After the James Webb Space Telescope finishes its commissioning period and rele… [+5315 chars]
image: A new upside down fabrication method for light-manipulating metamaterials envelops nanoparticles with a transparent spacing layer followed by a coating of metal. The way the metal coating enve… [+5288 chars]
Illustration of a solar diagram of an unevolved yellow star. /CAS Illustration of a solar diagram of an unevolved yellow star. /CAS Thanks to China's largest optical telescope, astronomers have dis… [+2404 chars]
