Weblog on Physics

"With our own planet’s resources under ever-growing pressure and competition, could the mining of asteroids and even other planets prov...

Cold storage - an Arctic solution to the data storage cooling problem | In-depth | The Engineer "We generate a storm of data throughou...

Vibrant displays head to market, invisibility cloaks become more practical, and batteries store more energy... The Year in Materials - Tech...

Magnetic scans with a tiny magnet, by Michael Schirber, a discussion of the paper entitled Near-Zero-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance by M....

"Two teams of researchers in the US have taken important steps towards the creation of commercially viable "artificial leaf"...

"Lufthansa, Europe's second-largest airline, became the first carrier in the world to offer regular scheduled flights running on bi...

"Passivated nanopores withstand extreme voltages. Solid-state nanopores are a core element of next-generation single molecule tools in...

"Functionalized electrochemical impedance spectroscopy device targets personalized medicine. Rapid, sensitive, accurate, miniaturized ...

"By slowing a beam of light down to the speed of sound, UK researchers have dragged photons by an unprecedented 5°, proving a longstand...

"Photosynthesis, nature's way of converting sunlight to fuel, happens all around us, from leaves on a tree to the smallest blade of...

"Researchers in the US have discovered a new form of carbon produced by "activating" expanded graphite oxide. The material is...

"Researchers in the US have developed a new kind of organic solar cell that converts a small but significant fraction of the sunlight ...

"A research team at Festo has developed SmartBird, a biomechatronic bird that can take off, fly and land autonomously. Festo claims tha...

Final-year engineering undergraduates from Warwick University are building the power system for a micro-satellite that will orbit the moon i...

The first experiment to investigate the effects of plasmasphere disturbances on satellite communications will be launched aboard the UK Spac...

"Satellites in orbit around the Earth are at risk of collision with space-based objects, which have either been discarded by space miss...

"Experts at English Heritage are using laser scanning and high-resolution digital imaging to create a virtual rendering of Stonehenge ...