Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs) are open-world games that allow thousands and sometimes even hundreds of thousands of players to create avatars that can...

What Happens When AI Has Read Everything?Ross Andersen | The Atlantic“Artificial intelligence has in recent years proved itself to be a quick study, although...

As routine work is increasingly performed by automated systems, exciting new jobs are likely to emerge in cybersecurity. Positions in outer space cybersecurity, AI...

IntroductionIn 2021, the Hayabusa2 space mission successfully delivered a morsel of the asteroid 162173 Ryugu to Earth — five grams of the oldest, most...

It might seem right to rename scientific principles that honour physicists who have done bad things. But doing so raises ethical...

A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made...

In 2017, the Scottish philosopher William MacAskill coined the name “longtermism” to describe the idea “that positively affecting the long-run future is a key...

The Anthropocene is one of those rare scientific terms that has entered the public consciousness, which is ironic, given that geologists...

A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with Andrew Cheng, who is a lead scientist on the...

The Physics World 2022 Breakthrough of the Year goes to NASA and a team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in the US for...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth with the force of 10 billion atomic bombs and changed the course of evolution. The...