Physics News Stories

一群来自布里斯托尔大学的研究人员甲型肝炎e discovered that the optical properties of a fish’s skin seem be...

This week has seen planetary scientists gathering in Madrid for the European Planetary Science Congress, and several...

In a giant leap for technology, scientists have doubled the electricity-producing efficiency of the thermoelectric...

A superhydrophobic layer repels water from hot metal and prevents it boiling...

A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are...

The journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated to the subject of black hole research, and we look at what...

A new way of doing microscopic origami has been developed.

Researchers in the US have sequenced the genome of particular species of fungus that can turn cellulose into biofuel...

Astronomers have caught their best glimpse yet of a star being ripped to pieces by a supermassive black hole.

Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D...

Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands,...

Scientists have taken the first steps towards interrogating antimatter to discover whether its spectroscopic...

By combining two existing technologies, researchers in America have devised a novel way to generate electricity from...

Astronomers have found compelling evidence for life in the Universe – but only on Earth. Using a phenomenon known as...

New materials which can strengthen electromagnetic forces have been designed.

A clever “super-resolution” microscope has allowed researchers to observe changes in a single neuron in the brain of a...

A way of distilling drinks without even heating them has been developed...

To a jumping spider, the difference of a few millimetres can determine whether it gets to eat or not. So it should come...

The date has been set for the next leap second – June 30th 2012. Leap seconds help to keep our incredibly accurate...

A pair of new American spacecraft entered orbit about the Moon over the new year period, with the aim of measuring the...

A new method of determining the structure of a crystal has been developed which can measure the structure even though...

The reputation of the famous Stradivarius and Guaneri names on violins has been dented by a new study showing that, in...