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The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

Increasing CO2 levels are triggering changes in the ionosphere that will adversely affect signals, say scientists ...

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Almost every image that will be taken by future space observatories in low-Earth orbit could be tainted due to light contamination from satellites. That is according to a new analysis from researchers ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Tim Hsieh of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. We explore some of today’s hottest topics in quantum science and technology ...

Susumu Noda of Kyoto University has won the 2026 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics for the development of the Photonic Crystal ...

On ice: The IC2 interaction chamber of the HED experiment station at the European XFEL. In this chamber, ice XXI was produced using diamond anvil cells and analysed with the intense and ultrashort ...

When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...

The light interacts with the cavity and makes an arbitrary number of bounces before leaking out. This emergent light is traditionally treated as heat in quantum simulations. However, it can still be ...