Researchers at the University of Strathclyde, UK, have developed a new method to recycle the valuable semiconductor colloidal ...

Electron–proton collisions Study reveals importance of entanglement entropy. (Courtesy: Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory) An international team of physicists has used the principle of ...

Polymers are made by linking together building blocks of monomers into chains. To make polymers elastic, these chains are crosslinked by covalent chemical bonds. The crosslinks connect the polymer ...

As proclaimed by the United Nations, 2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, or IYQ for short. This year was chosen because it marks the 100th anniversary of Werner ...

Stable levitation The NYU team performed experiments on robotic hula hoopers using gyrating bodies with various shapes. Overlaid video frames reveal that an hourglass-shaped body successfully hula ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...

From squirting cucumbers to cosmic stamps, physics has had its fair share of quirky stories this year. Here is our pick of ...

Another significant lunar first came later in the year when China’s Chang’e-6 mission successfully returned samples back to ...

Take a tour of the year's highlights with this list of the most-read stories published in Physics World in 2024 ...