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Secret of antimatter creation in cosmic collisions revealed
Added: 14 Apr 2022
At the Quark Matter conference and Rencontres de Moriond conferences, the LHCb collaboration presen…

So... What is the point of physics? IOP is offering £1000 for the best answer!
Added: 7 Apr 2022
IoP launches a new challenge to get young people to see physics differently. With only one in ten p…

Scientists design remote monitoring system for inaccessible quantum devices
Added: 1 Apr 2022
Researchers have developed an innovative remote monitoring system for ultra-sensitive quantum devic…

2022 predictions on the advances in life sciences innovation
Added: 9 Dec 2021
Innovation experts recently hired specifically to study emerging tech and drive collaboration predi…

CERN environmental report sets out concrete actions to reduce its environmental footprint
Added: 25 Nov 2021
CERN released its second public Environment Report covering the years 2019-2020 when the accelerato…

Almost half of life science professionals say their understanding of quantum computing is still “beginner level”
Added: 22 Sep 2021
New results from a survey of life science professionals find that almost half classify their unders…

Groundbreaking technique may lead to discovery of 'fifth force'
Added: 13 Sep 2021
A group of researchers have used a groundbreaking new technique to reveal previously unrecognised p…

Decades of research brings quantum dots to brink of widespread use
Added: 18 Aug 2021
A new article in Science magazine gives an overview of almost three decades of research into colloi…

New topological superconductor could fill critical component gap in quantum computing
Added: 18 Jun 2021
A newly discovered superconductor could have enormous impact on quantum computing. The relative sen…

Combining classical and quantum computing opens door to new discoveries
Added: 17 Jun 2021
New approaches are needed to lay the pathway to efficient and effective quantum computing. Now, res…

Record quantum entanglement rates: A step closer to the Quantum Internet
Added: 2 Jun 2021
In a landmark step for quantum communications, researchers have achieved record entanglement rates …

Commercial quanta image sensors - a new era in solid-state imaging
Added: 27 May 2021
Solid-state technology capable of imaging individual photons of light to enable full-speed photon c…

First virtual symposium on quantum technology, semiconductors, and power generation
Added: 24 May 2021
Oxford Instruments plc is pleased to announce its first Virtual Symposium on Quantum Technology, Se…

A novel light harvesting engine strings buckyballs and chromophores on DNA
Added: 26 Feb 2021
Researchers have synthesised a novel type of organic light-harvesting supramolecule by arranging fl…

Not just a droplet: Explaining one dimensional quantum liquid formation
Added: 22 Jan 2021
A new type of quantum droplet - the most dilute liquids ever experimentally observed - helps unrave…

Let the countdown commence with atomic accuracy
Added: 31 Dec 2020
10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1... Happy New Year!
While the UK looks to Big Ben and the US…

Quantum technology spins into scalability
Added: 11 Dec 2020
A multi-disciplinary team has published proof-of-concept for a powerful and scalable quantum techno…

Graphene researchers throw physics out the window
Added: 16 Nov 2020
A Manchester University graphene research team has just thrown the physics textbook out of the prov…

Scaling up the quantum chip
Added: 16 Jul 2020
MIT researchers have developed a process to manufacture and integrate ‘artificial atoms’, created b…

Kirke teleports from Westeros
Added: 10 Jul 2020
Teleportation is most commonly the stuff of science fiction and, for many, would conjure up the imm…