The surface of Mars carries many traces of a past watery climate, including ancient river channels, deltas, and paleolakes.

Researchers at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva have been left stunned after a lorry containing a vial of ...

The new miniaturized structure requires a few thousand times less power than larger magnets and it could help bring ...

Dave Robertson spent almost a decade as a school physics teacher before moving into politics. He tells Matin Durrani what ...

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Robot collective Magnetic microrobot swarms act as motors to move millimetre-sized passive objects without physical contact. (Courtesy: MPI-IS) Strong viscous interactions exist in microscale systems, ...

All professional scientists and engineers will have benefited at one time or another from the generous guidance of other people – be they teachers, lecturers, or work colleagues. So perhaps we should ...

The amount of moisture in soil – and the way this moisture is distributed – combined with wind patterns in the lowest few kilometres of the atmosphere can influence where thunderstorms begin and how ...

Many-body physics is the study of large ensembles of interacting particles and their collective behaviour. These systems are ...

Physicists at Columbia University in the US say they may have found evidence for a phenomenon in which a superfluid suddenly stops flowing inside a solid-state material. If confirmed, the finding – ...

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Global conflicts are making renewable energy more attractive, but an all-renewable grid will require solving physics problems ...