Half a century later, that ultra-deep mindset is being repurposed for something more practical: harvesting Earth’s heat as a ...

A new study published in Nature Communications shows, for the first time, how heat moves—or rather, doesn't—between materials in a high-energy-density plasma state.

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...

Rahmanudin tells Physics World that fluid-based electrodes could lead to entirely new battery designs, including batteries ...

Drying droplets have fascinated scientists for decades. From water to coffee to paint, these everyday fluids leave behind ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) is an instability of an interface between two fluids of different densities ... It also plays a major role in plasma physics, especially as it pertains to nuclear ...

College of Physics and Electronic Engineering and, Joint Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Physics of NWNU, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China ...

"Our method for detecting micro- and nanoplastics can be applied to clear body fluids such as urine, tear fluid, or blood plasma," says Fitzek. "However, it is also suitable for the continuous ...

The Martin A. Fisher School of Physics enjoys an international reputation for excellence in research, and is one of the highest-ranked of its size in the country. The department offers rigorous ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with Panicos Kyriacou, who is chief scientist at the UK-based start-up Crainio. The company has developed a non-invasive way of ...

and plasma motion in a stars magnetic field. Helical vortex rings are fundamental structures in fluid dynamics and play an important role in turbulence. This work reveals how their translational ...