Even if the Milky Way and Andromeda don’t collide in the next 10 billion years, though, that won’t be the end of the story.

Those goals are probably as insanely ambitious as they sound, which is why my day-to-day work is a mix of complexity economics, monetary theory and economic anthropology. I spend a lot of time ...

Scientists who switch research fields suffer a drop in the impact of their new work – a so-called “pivot penalty”. That is according to a new analysis of scientific papers and patents, which finds ...

Trips to synchrotron facilities could become a thing of the past for some researchers thanks to a new laboratory-scale ...

Oscillating conductance This measurement on the middle quantum dot shows how the bulk gap in the system can be created and removed. This control is important for the manipulation and protection of ...

The Leinweber Foundation has awarded five US institutions $90m to create their own theoretical research institutes. The ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

First high-resolution images of Bolivia's Uturuncu volcano show it is likely to remain active without actually erupting ...

Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could produce up to 10% of the universe’s gold, silver and platinum, according to a new study. What is more, astronomers may have ...

As the technologies we use become more quantum in nature, it follows that everyone should have a basic understanding of ...

Physics World corresponding editor Isabelle Dumé reports from a Paris symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of the ...

Mike Follows reviews World Without End: an Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe ...