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Technology

Molecular antennae

Advancements in LED physics show promise for communication systems and medical diagnoses

Everyday physics

Conservation of linear momentum

From billiard balls and bullets to rockets and light, discover how a universal symmetry of nature preserves momentum everywhere.

Quantum physics

Quantum tunneling

A journey into the quantum world, where particles defy walls, probabilities rule, and tunneling powers the stars and life itself.

History of physics

Ampère's law

The law that revealed the hidden link between electricity and magnetism.

Quantum physics

Revisiting Bohr and Einstein, 100 Years On

How a modern MIT experiment answers one of the deepest questions in the Bohr–Einstein debate

Space

Why the BICEP2 results are important to physicists, part 2

How physicists use BICEP2, a telescope in the remote South Pole, to study polarisation of CMBR; and how some believe it should be verified first.

History of physics

What was historic scientific peer review like?

The practice from which modern science gains much of its trust is in fact a recent development

Editorial

Topological phases and transitions: the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for work on topology and we explain exactly what it all means

Editorial

The theorising and discovery of black holes: the 2020 Physics Nobel

With increasing evidence being gathered about their existence, the 2020 physics Nobel finally recognised work done on black holes—but too late for Hawking.

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