While the physics of uncorking a bottle of champagne has been well documented, less is known about the mechanisms at play when opening a swing-top bottle of beer. Physicist Max Koch from the ...

Maimone told Physics World that they used strict selection criteria to ensure that the two groups of academics were comparable and that the accusations against them were public. This meant her team ...

Ekert, who splits his time between the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore, describes how he used ...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory has released the first images from its partially built low-frequency telescope ...

Some of the most fascinating people that you meet at American Physical Society meetings are not actually physicists, and Bruce Rosenbaum is no exception. Based in Massachusetts, Rosenbaum is a maker ...

Could the tools we build to reflect our intelligence start distorting our very sense of self? Artificial intelligence (AI) is ...

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A new study probing quantum phenomena in neurons as they transmit messages in the brain could provide fresh insight into how our brains function. Our brains process information via a vast network ...

NASA has launched a $488m infra-red mission to map the distribution of galaxies and study cosmic inflation. The ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

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