A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

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This episode of Physics World Weekly has a laser focus on one thing: the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics. On Tuesday, Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland joined the pantheon of Nobel ...

Artificial intelligence opens the door to a new way of doing science, one in which we are not the only ones capable of ...

Fraunhofer IAF, Qudora Tech, and AMO are co-developing new photonic components for ion-trap quantum computers.

In this Physics World Focus on Optics & Photonics you’ll find an interview with the healthcare photonics lead at the UK’s Centre for Process Innovation, and a report on a pan-European effort to ...

Superconductivity and quantum computing are two fields that have seeped from theoretical circles into popular consciousness. The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for work in superconducting ...

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Researchers from the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute have demonstrated the first magneto-optical ...