A diamond sample in the solidified liquid metal. (Courtesy: Institute for Basic Science/Yan Gong) The usual way of manufacturing synthetic diamonds involves applying huge pressures to carbon at high ...

But it’s not all about CERN. Over in the US, there are in-depth interviews with Lia Merminga, the physicist who’s current ...

The Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) for Innovation in Data Intensive Science is preparing the next generation of ...

Tokamak fusion reactors use intense magnetic fields to confine and heat hydrogen plasma within their doughnut-shaped ...

The Coffee Center will be used by more than 50 researchers and includes labs dedicated to brewing, “sensory and cupping” and ...

Hotter than the Sun: experiments are soon set to resume following eight months of upgrades at the DIII-D National Fusion ...

Double trouble: physicists in the US have created a bilayer of ultracold magnetic atoms separated by just 50 nm. (Courtesy: ...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is to assemble a panel to help it decide whether to fund the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) or the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The agency expects the panel, ...

Ryan Snodgrass and colleagues in the US have designed a new way to operate pulse tube refrigerators (PTRs), which compress ...

Mathematically speaking, social networks look like groups of nodes (representing people) connected by lines or edges ...

Following almost three decades of planning and construction the world’s highest observatory has begun operations. The ...

A novel detector designed to search for so-called “dark” photons has placed unprecedented constraints on where this type of ...