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Sucking up crude oil with laser-treated cork
Cork treated with femtosecond laser processing could be used to clean up large-scale marine oil spills
Implantable and biocompatible battery powered by the body’s own oxygen
A biocompatible battery that runs on oxygen circulating in the body could one day provide continuous power to implantable medical devices
Synthetic diamonds grow in liquid metal at ambient pressure
Extreme high pressures no longer required, say researchers
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Dark-field X-ray imaging reveals potential of nanoparticle-delivered gene therapy
The use of magnetically guided nanoparticles as targeted delivery vehicles could one day lead to a treatment for cystic fibrosis
Sound and light waves combine to create advanced optical neural networks
Researchers demonstrate a novel computation architecture based on the interaction of optical and acoustic waves
Ship-based atomic clock passes precision milestone
Prototype outperforms existing microwave clocks under real-world conditions
Modified pulse tube refrigerator cuts cryogenic cooling times in half
Pressure control could save millions in cooling costs
Protecting phone screens with non-Newtonian fluids
Fluids that get runnier during impact are optimized for preventing damage to phone screens
Bilayer of ultracold atoms has just a 50 nm gap
System could be used to simulate superconducting bilayer graphene
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Astronomers versus activists: the battle over San Diego’s streetlights
Robert P Crease recalls the time when Palomar astronomers found themselves in a fight with locals
Why we still need a CERN for climate change
Tim Palmer says that we must pool our resources to produce high-resolution climate models that societies can use, before it is too late
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Effective Science Communication (3rd edition) with Sam Illingworth
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Grounds for celebration as ‘hub of all things coffee’ opens at University of California, Davis
The Coffee Center will be used by more than 50 researchers and includes labs dedicated to brewing, “sensory and cupping” and the chemical analysis of coffee
The future of 2D materials: grand challenges and opportunities
Join the audience for a live webinar on 13 June 2024 sponsored by IOP Publishing's journal, 2D Materials
Data science CDT puts industry collaboration at its heart
The Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) for Innovation in Data Intensive Science is preparing the next generation of physicists for their future careers
GMT or TMT? Fate of next-generation telescope falls to expert panel set up by US National Science Foundation
The group will examine the readiness of the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope
US DIII-D National Fusion Facility resumes operations following series of upgrades
The improvements will allow researchers to better control and study fusion plasmas
‘My career has not been a straight line’: Craig Jantzen on switching from nuclear science to diplomacy
Craig Jantzen says his past self would never have imagined where his career has taken him
Astronomy conference travel is on par with Africa’s per-capita carbon footprint
Travel to astronomy meetings in 2019 resulted in the emission of 42 500 tonnes of emissions
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From pulsars and fast radio bursts to gravitational waves and beyond: a family quest for Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer
Astrophysicists Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin talk to Sidney Perkowitz about navigating science and academia as a married couple
Australia raises eyebrows by splashing A$1bn into US quantum-computing start-up PsiQuantum
The bold investment has been met with a mixed response
Superfluid helium: the quantum curiosity that enables huge physics experiments
Superfluid helium is used in science and technology in multi-tonne quantities and is ideal for cooling components made from superconducting materials
In real-world social networks, your enemy’s enemy is indeed your friend, say physicists
New work validates key elements of balance theory put forward nearly 80 years ago
China launches Chang’e-6 mission to return samples from the Moon’s far side
Craft is attempting to land in the northeastern side of the South Pole-Aitkin Basin
Quantum Machines’ processor-based approach for quantum control
Quantum Machines introduces the OPX1000 platform, a scaled up system with very high channel density for error-free quantum computing
Semiconductor substrate behaves ‘like the tail wagging the dog’, say scientists
X-ray pulses reveal surprising response in titanium dioxide substrate for fast transistors
Wigner crystal appears in bilayer graphene
First direct observations made of a lattice structure consisting solely of electrons
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