The Grace radiotherapy system delivers conventional X-ray radiation therapy to patients in the upright position ...

The drone-like rotorcraft, which is designed to land on and gather samples from Titan, has been hit by a two-year delay, with ...

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission ...

Attend our special community celebration that traces the remarkable journey of quantum physics and its transformative ...

Vacuum tunnelling – an exotic process by which empty space can become temporarily filled with virtual particles when an ...

The researchers found that a slightly curved meniscus allows more wave energy to pass through the barrier. Conversely, if the meniscus curves more steeply, it reduces the energy transported by the ...

This applies to the Shanghai Outer Ring Tunnel: a major travel artery in China’s largest city, which runs for almost 3 km ...

London-based artist Oksana Kondratyeva has created a new stained-glass artwork – entitled Discovery – that is inspired by the ...

In the past three decades astronomers have discovered more than 6000 exoplanets – planets that orbit stars other than the Sun ...