The Australian government has controversially announced it will provide A$940m (£500m) for the US-based quantum-startup PsiQuantum. The investment, which comes from the country’s National Quantum ...

Atomic clocks are the world’s most precise timekeeping devices, and they are essential to staples of modern life such as ...

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

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

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According to the researchers’ theoretical calculations and modelling, this mechanism involves atomic sites in the material ...

Researchers at Princeton University in the US say they have made the first direct observation of a Wigner crystal – a ...

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

Making decisions about your career can be an exciting process, but for most people it’s also a tricky one. Physics World Careers 2024 is here to help you navigate the current jobs market – to find the ...

Quantum Machines introduces the OPX1000 platform, a scaled up system with very high channel density for error-free quantum computing ...

Many physicists work for small-to-medium-sized companies that provide scientific instrumentation and services – and some have founded companies of their own. Such businesses can have limited resources ...