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As a mature student with the Open University, Dan Roach rekindles his love of practical experiment Real deal Dan Roach (right) and his lab partner Leeaaron Jones feeling like proper scientists on the first day of their summer school at the Open University in Milton Keynes. (Courtesy: Dan Roach) Bang! The Pyrex beaker is still

Dysfunction danger: research has shown that exposure to cosmic rays on space voyages could affect male sexual health. (Courtesy: iStock/3000ad) The latest episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with a biomedical ethicist who believes that ethical rules and best practices must be developed for research that is done on humans who

Our guest in this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast is the biomedical ethicist Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, who along with colleagues has called for the commercial space industry to adopt ethical policies and best practices for research done on humans during space flights. Rahimzadeh, who is at Baylor College of Medicine in the US, explains

Siemens Healthineers explains how bringing more innovation on the imaging as well as the treatment side can enhance patient outcomes In this short video, filmed at the ASTRO 2023 conference, Elena Nioutsikou, global programme director for MRI in RT, explains how Siemens Healthineers can make an impact on patient outcomes across the whole continuum of

Across the world, varying factions of society seem to be angrier and more divided than ever. But as Anna Demming explains, physicists are doing their best to shed light on what has gone wrong Divided society Can physics help us to understand why society is increasingly politically polarized? (Courtesy: iStock/Mariya Bondarenko) Aeroplane contrails are being

Certified entangled: In this entanglement certification scheme involving weak certification and reversal measurements, two parties (traditionally known as Alice and Bob) sitting in their respective laboratories share a potentially entangled pair of systems in the shared state |Ψi⟩. In the certification step, they subject their local systems to weak certification measurements to obtain statistics. In

This is the first year that IOP has recognised North America, having already published top-cited awards for China and India (courtesy: iStock/Igor-Kutyaev) Almost 130 articles from researchers in North America have been recognized with a top-cited award for 2023 from IOP Publishing, which publishes Physics World. The papers received over 15400 citations in total and

Sun Nuclear presents the latest developments in the SunCHECK, SunScan and ArcCHECK platforms In this short video filmed at the ASTRO 2023 conference in San Diego, US, Greg Robinson, patient QA product line director at Sun Nuclear, outlines recent developments with the SunCHECK platform. Robinson points out that many new technologies and increasing complexities are

On the road again: Jenny Hoffman somewhere on her run across the US. (Courtesy: Jill Yeomans) We all know physicists with extraordinary talents that stretch well beyond academia – and Harvard University’s Jenny Hoffman is no exception. She has just become the fastest woman to run across the US. She made the 3000 mile (5000

Astronomers are becoming increasingly concerned about the growing number of satellites that are lighting up the night sky by reflecting sunlight to Earth. In 2022, the prototype communications satellite BlueWalker 3 was launched and it is now the brightest commercial satellite ever – outshining almost every star in the sky. And to make matters worse,

Flopping around: A drawing of the bullavene molecule and the rearrangements it undergoes as it changes into its different possible shapes, or isomers. (Courtesy: Wikipedia/public domain image) Researchers in Australia have detected and controlled changes to the shape of a single molecule in response to an applied mechanical force. The feat could enable the development

The 2024 Rank Prize winners Left to right: Junzhong Liang, Donald Miller, Austin Roorda and David Williams. (Courtesy: Rank Prize) Four scientists who pioneered the development of adaptive optics (AO) technologies for imaging the human retina have been awarded the 2024 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics. The winners – Junzhong Liang, Donald Miller, Austin Roorda and

Battery research team member Yaobin Xu inserts a sample into a transmission electron microscope to examine the function of a rechargeable battery. (Courtesy: Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) The first direct measurements of thin, supposedly insulating deposits that form in ageing rechargeable lithium-ion batteries have turned up a surprising result: the deposits are

Join the audience for a live webinar at 3 p.m. GMT/10 a.m. EST on 29 November 2023 exploring exosomes and the development of different sensing platforms for detection using nanoparticle integrated plasmonic platforms Want to take part in this webinar? Exosomes are a class of extracellular vesicles (EVs) that are unique nano-sized cargo-bearing biological vesicles,

Sally Oey is a professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan, US, where she studies massive stars and their effects on their host galaxies. She is especially interested in how ultraviolet ionizing radiation escapes from so-called “starburst” galaxies, which contain many bright, young stars that heat interstellar gas to millions of degrees. Star thinker

Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope have joined forces to image the galaxy cluster known as MACS0416 (courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Spain), J. D’Silva (U. Western Australia), A. Koekemoer (STScI), J. Summers & R. Windhorst (ASU), and H. Yan (U. Missouri)) If you have ever attempted

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features a wide-ranging interview with Dave Newbold, who is Executive Director, National Laboratories Science and Technologies for the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Newbold spent two decades as an experimental particle physicist before joining the STFC. I spoke to him at the Harwell Science and