Jonte Hance reveals why they stopped reviewing and submitting articles to for-profit publishers ...

New estimate suggests that the most persistent stellar objects may decay away via Hawking radiation within the next 1078 ...

Scientists have created a novel antimicrobial coating that, when mixed with paint, can be applied to a range of surfaces to destroy bacteria and viruses – including particularly persistent and ...

A wearable navigation assistance system combines visual, audio and haptic senses to assist visually impaired people with daily life tasks ...

Note: The verification e-mail to complete your account registration should arrive immediately. However, in some cases it ...

Subtle quantum effects within atomic nuclei can dramatically affect how some nuclei break apart. By studying 100 isotopes ...

Five is a crowd Physicists have shown how interactions between five atoms can create a tetramer and a single free atom. (Courtesy: Shutterstock) Five-body recombination, in which five identical atoms ...

Seismic sensor: Portable seismometer deployed at Yellowstone. (Courtesy: Jamie Farrell, University of Utah) The first clear images of Yellowstone’s shallowest magma reservoir have revealed its depth ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I am in conversation with James Wootton, who is chief scientific officer ...

Image is the first taken on the surface of another planet, and the first visible-light aurora image from anywhere other than ...