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

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 ...

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

From squirting cucumbers to cosmic stamps, physics has had its fair share of quirky stories this year. Here is our pick of the best 10, not in any particular order.

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

One half of the Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year has been awarded to Hartmut Neven and colleagues at Google Quantum AI and their collaborators for ...

December might be dark and chilly here in the northern hemisphere, but it’s summer south of the equator – and for many people that means eating ice cream. It turns out that the physics of ice cream is ...

Fast and accurate FastGlioma is an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic system that can detect residual brain tumour that’s often missed during surgery. The image shows various diffuse glioma ...

The official opening of the National Quantum Computing Centre’s main facility highlighted the pivotal role it will play in fostering collaboration across the UK’s burgeoning quantum ecosystem ...

Margaret Harris looks back on a year of fascinating research – and ahead to the International Year of Quantum Science and ...