Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, antimatter, atomic and molecular physics and more. The Top Ten is the ...

The microscopic processes taking place in superconductors are difficult to observe directly. Researchers at the RPTU ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

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While India’s Semiconductor Mission focuses on fabs, real technological sovereignty and reducing the $25 billion import bill ...

A five-element ceramic aerogel compresses by 98% and recovers its shape from cryogenic to 1500 degrees C temperatures, ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

Thorium-229's unique nuclear transitions may lead to a revolutionary nuclear clock, with enhanced stability and sensitivity ...

Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by laser-cooled atoms trapped in a repeating pattern of light interference ...

Scientists detect solar neutrinos transforming carbon into nitrogen for the first time, using the SNO+ detector deep underground.

A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw has developed a new method for measuring elusive terahertz ...

The University of Chicago, where Fermi split the atom in 1942, is becoming the center of a new form of advanced technology.