The hands-on activities are organised and supervised by a team of five Year 10 Sharples High School pupils, who deliver fun, hands-on physics activities to a group of Year One pupils. During the first ...

A new science club is sparking interest among Bolton's young Einsteins. Sharples High School's "I can do Physics!" club, ...

Scientists at the University of Nebraska are using quantum mechanics to design more powerful and energy-efficient electronic ...

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the ...

Dark matter and its impact on cosmology have puzzled physicists for nearly a century. At Perimeter Institute, two researchers ...

New calculation of viral spread based on branching process theory suggests that rapid elimination of SARS-CoV-2-like viruses ...

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems. The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

Physicists have heated gold to over 19,000 Kelvin, more than 14 times its melting point, without melting it, smashing the long-standing “entropy catastrophe” limit. Using an ultra-fast laser pulse at ...

Ultra-accurate simulations of the gravity field guide toward a new mathematical foundation of gravity modelling. A layered Earth. (Courtesy: iStock/AlexLMX) The Earth is not a perfect sphere. This ...