In this month's issue of Physics World, an international group of researchers propose a new technology that could divert vibrations away from load-bearing elements of bridges to avoid catastrophic collap ...

Physics - General Physics

May 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

From battlefields to playing fields, worries over traumatic brain injury (TBI) have intensified recently as it has become clear that heavy knocks to the head – whether from bomb detonations or crunching sports tackles – ...

Physics - General Physics

Apr 02, 2013 not rated yet 0

In this month's special edition of Physics World, focusing on quantum physics, Thomas Jennewein and Brendon Higgins from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada, describe how a quantum space ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Feb 28, 2013 4.6 / 5 (9) 8 |

In this month's edition of Physics World, science writer Richard Corfield casts doubt on the alleged "brainwashing" of the late British astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell by the Soviets at the height of the Co ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 08, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—With its 2160 litres of liquid helium about to run out, the Herschel Space Observatory will, by the end of March, become just another piece of space junk.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 02, 2013 4.4 / 5 (7) 0

(Phys.org)—Research at SLAC's powerful X-ray laser that could lead to the development of specialized drugs to better combat African sleeping sickness has been recognized by Science magazine as one of the ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 24, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1

This month's special issue of Physics World is devoted to animal physics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes explanation of how s effortlessly skip across water leaving nothing but a small ripple in their wake.

Physics - General Physics

Oct 31, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

As NASA's Curiosity rover scours the surface of Mars and beams pictures of the stark and desolate landscape back to Earth, we've begun to paint a picture of what living on the red planet might actually be like.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Oct 01, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

In a Physics World special report on Japan, Dennis Normile reports on how the Japanese space agency JAXA plans to land a spacecraft onto an asteroid in 2018 to search for clues of how life began on Earth. ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 29, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2

In this month's Physics World, Steve Haake, director of the Centre for Sports Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, reveals that the men's 100 m sprint will be one event not to miss this summer.

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Jul 02, 2012 not rated yet 0

In this month's Physics World, Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, explains how applied physics led to the innovation of flameless cooking in the late 19th century and addresses the ch ...

Physics - General Physics

Jun 01, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 1