The NPL has developed a miniaturised Atomic Fountain Clock that promises to make accurate timekeeping technology smaller.

Glassy materials are everywhere, with applications far exceeding windowpanes and drinking glasses. They range from bioactive ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

KOC is joined by Wosny Lambre to break down Jaylen Brown’s standout performance this season, proclaiming himself the ‘best ...

An international research project has been awarded £215,100 to explore some of the rarest and most unstable forms of matter ...

The project has received £215,100 from the Royal Society’s International Science Partnership Fund and is a collaboration with ...

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