The US National Ignition Facility’s historic demonstration of ignition is stimulating renewed optimism for laser fusion, including from private investors, as...

Credit: DALL-E 2“The contemplation in natural science of a wider domain than the actual leads to a far better understanding of the actual.” —...

New insights into the exotic thermal behaviour of phasons – quasiparticles that can be found...

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...

Physicists working at a laser-fusion facility in the US have announced a world first –...

Physics World is delighted to announce its top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2022, which span everything from quantum and...

The first scientific results from the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan...

Last year and after about a decade of trying, physicists working at the mammoth National...

A beam of “twisted” neutrons with a well-defined orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been created...

The collision of neutron stars is thought to create precious metals such as gold and platinum. The characteristics of these stars remain a mystery,...

A long-standing question in nuclear physics is whether chargeless nuclear systems can exist. Only neutron stars represent near-pure neutron systems, where neutrons are squeezed...