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Honor Powrie reflects on what impact AI might have in the future The post GenAI: can we get its good side to outweigh the bad and the ugly? appeared first on Physics World.

New ultrasound trap boosts our understanding of charge transfer The post Controlled collisions reveal predictable pattern in triboelectric charging appeared first on Physics World.

Exceptional mechanical and thermal properties come from specially engineered organic cations in a layered halide structure The post Rigid hybrid perovskites achieve ultralow thermal conductivity appeared first on Physics World.

A new report challenges the idea that scientists become less innovative as they age The post Experienced scientists produce more persistently disruptive research, finds study appeared first on Physics World.

Have you been keeping up to date with physics news? Try our short quiz to find out The post Quiz of the week: what happens to the structure and dynamics of the human genome under microgravity conditions? appeared first on Physics World.

Pressure sensors and particle detectors could benefit from research The post Levitated nanoparticle detects single-atom collisions appeared first on Physics World.

Quantum experiment is controlled from thousands of kilometres away The post Theorists use cloud-based Bose–Einstein condensate to study tunnelling appeared first on Physics World.

Findings could have implications for space travel and for treating neurodegenerative diseases The post Earth’s gravity and magnetism have unexpected effects on the human genome and mitochondria appeared first on Physics World.

New technique claims 97.8% accuracy and uses less energy than digital neural networks with similar performance The post To detect deepfake videos, researchers turn to the physics of light appeared first on Physics World.

Emma Chapman reviews Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: How the Solar System Shaped Human History – And May Help Save Our Planet by Dagomar Degroot The post Cosmic chronicles: the impact of celestial instabilities on human history appeared first on Physics World.

The first experimental realisation of Floquet tensor monopoles provides a controllable platform for investigating non-equilibrium topology in four dimensions The post Controlling four-dimensional monopoles appeared first on Physics World.

Recently observed objects could be black holes that grew extremely quickly during an early stage of their lives The post Astronomers propose solution for ‘little red dot’ mystery appeared first on Physics World.

Joshua Biro wonders how we know if a student has really understood a piece of physics The post Why it’s hard to know if students understand a piece of physics appeared first on Physics World.

Leaning in to the natural “handedness” of vibrating bots revealed “qualitatively new phenomena”, say physicists The post Chiral bristlebot toys shed light on transport dynamics in active matter systems appeared first on Physics World.

Magnetic moment could be measured at unprecedented precision The post One-positron quantum cyclotron could put the Standard Model to the test appeared first on Physics World.

Join the audience for a live webinar on 10 November 2026 sponsored by IOP Publishing's journal, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion The post The roadmap for runaway electron-induced plasma facing component damage in tokamaks appeared first on Physics World.

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Join the audience for a live webinar at 6 p.m. GMT/1 p.m. EST on 18 November 2026 Combining two great tools to study your electrolysis cell results in great challenge The post Reference electrode measurements in electrolysis cells: an EIS view appeared first on Physics World.

Scientists must be rewarded for clearly explaining difficult concepts, says Mark Procter The post Industry should invest in developing and practising storytelling appeared first on Physics World.

Like diamond, diamondiyne allotrope forms covalent bonds in three dimensions The post New 3D form of carbon made in the lab appeared first on Physics World.

Have you been keeping up to date with physics news? Try our short quiz to find out The post Quiz of the week: how many telescopes will eventually form the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory appeared first on Physics World.

Handheld optical coherence tomography device will make diagnosis and monitoring of eye diseases more affordable and accessible The post Siloton secures £8.4m to speed development of portable retinal imaging system appeared first on Physics World.

A week-long meeting in Cambridge celebrated Masao Doi’s and Luca Peliti’s pioneering framework to study random processes The post When Doi met Peliti: physicists celebrate 50 years of the Doi-Peliti theory appeared first on Physics World.

Hexagonal close-packed phase could exist deep within the planets Uranus and Neptune, contributing to their peculiar magnetic fields The post New type of superionic water ice observed for the first time appeared first on Physics World.

The Large-Sized Telescope will provide new insights into the early universe The post Officials celebrate completion of gamma-ray telescope array in La Palma appeared first on Physics World.

New study places a quantum limit on how fast a system can reach a state of thermal equilibrium The post Your beer can only cool so fast. Blame quantum mechanics appeared first on Physics World.

Analysis of cloud-related atmospheric effects could be an important factor in designing future wind farms The post Low-level clouds could make wind farms more efficient appeared first on Physics World.

How many words can you find in this puzzle? The post Word flower puzzle no. 9 appeared first on Physics World.

Robert P Crease sees three ways to respond to attacks on physics The post The unsavoury rise of ‘populist physics’: here’s how best to respond appeared first on Physics World.

Researchers show that carefully designed complex scattering media can perform non-Abelian braiding of acoustic modes The post Turning disorder into a resource for wave control appeared first on Physics World.

Researchers demonstrate Rashba-like spin splitting in a perfectly symmetric plasmonic crystal, challenging conventional assumptions about the role of structural asymmetry The post A new route to spin-controlled photonics appeared first on Physics World.

Quantum simulation goes beyond traditional models The post Gluon string breaking is simulated using trapped ions appeared first on Physics World.

First observation of fundamental quantization in mechanical vibrations could have applications in quantum error correction and protein diagnostics The post Sound waves come in quantum jumps appeared first on Physics World.

Tania Kendrick is a civil servant in the UK’s Cabinet Office The post Ask me anything: Tania Kendrick – ‘There’s something really satisfying when everything starts to click’ appeared first on Physics World.

Cirac is honoured for contributions to modern quantum information science The post Quantum physicist Ignacio Cirac awarded 2026 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize appeared first on Physics World.

Work will go on display at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow The post Scottish artist marks 100 years of Schrödinger equation with new installation appeared first on Physics World.

Have you been keeping up to date with physics news? Try our short quiz to find out The post Quiz of the week: which star could help astronomers measure the spin of Sagittarius A*? appeared first on Physics World.

Researchers report encouraging findings from the first clinical cohort of blind people treated with optogenetic therapy The post Optogenetic therapy shows promise for vision restoration appeared first on Physics World.

Neutrino expert Kirsty Duffy is our podcast guest The post Francis Halzen and IceCube: why neutrinos keep attracting Nobel prizes appeared first on Physics World.

Can you reconstruct the wildlife photo in our interactive slide puzzle? The post Physics and wildlife conservation: a slide puzzle appeared first on Physics World.

A biophysics model describing how cancers spread within the human body could help researchers developing new cancer therapies The post Disordered environments around tumour cells can promote cancer spread appeared first on Physics World.

The Milky Way’s massive black hole is rapidly rotating, and a star in an unprecedentedly close orbit could help measure its spin The post Fastest star in the Milky Way feels the rotation of our central black hole appeared first on Physics World.

New timekeeping tools could revolutionize studies of fundamental physics The post Nuclear clocks finally see the light appeared first on Physics World.

Researchers propose a new way to search for physics beyond the Standard Model by studying quantum-entangled quark pairs produced in electron-positron collisions The post Using quantum entanglement to probe hidden properties of quarks appeared first on Physics World.

A nano-precursor synthesis route reduces manufacturing time and cost while improving the performance of protonic ceramic electrochemical cells The post Faster fabrication, better performance for PCECs appeared first on Physics World.

🧊 Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen! Neutrinos are "ghost particles" that zip through almost everything, so they're nearly impossible to catch. His idea: turn a cubic km of Antarctic ice into a detector. Now IceCube spots neutrinos from extreme cosmic events 🌌 #NobelPrize

Astrophysicist wins for his work detecting cosmic neutrinos The post Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in Physics appeared first on Physics World.

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel are joint winners of the 2026 prize The post Inventors of optogenetics win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine appeared first on Physics World.

Indu Satija celebrates the golden anniversary of Hofstadter’s butterfly The post Hofstadter’s butterfly turns 50: a fractal hiding in quantum matter appeared first on Physics World.

Yukawa laid the foundation for an active post-war generation of particle physicists in Japan The post Particle physicist Hideki Yukawa: Japan’s first Nobel laureate appeared first on Physics World.