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  1. 20 hours ago

    To help the environment, we need better ways of retrieving, reusing and recycling our plastic waste. Find out about some of the latest innovations being developed to help, and the challenges that still remain

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  2. 21 hours ago

    The life and tragic death of the Chinese-American physicist Zhang Shoucheng.

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  3. 21 hours ago

    Join us next week for our next webinar from Oxford Instruments.

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  4. 22 hours ago

    Iron nuclei can be made transparent to gamma rays that they would normally absorb using a new technique called “acoustically induced transparency” developed in the US and Russia.

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  5. 22 hours ago

    Motion-corrected single-molecule microscopy can measure the position of individual molecules with unprecedented accuracy

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  6. 23 hours ago

    A graphene coating can make ordinary surgical masks superhydrophobic, making them resistant to viral droplets. Meanwhile, graphene's strong light-absorption properties makes it possible to sterilize masks simply by exposing them to sunlight.

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  7. May 12

    A team of geoscientists has tracked the acoustic and seismic signals of rumbles from a family of elephants at a reserve in South Africa.

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  8. May 11

    Sabine Hossenfelder looks back in time and space in this history of black holes.

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  9. May 11

    Researchers at MPQ and have created a novel kind of helium atom in which one of the electrons is replaced by a sub-atomic particle known as a pion.

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  10. May 11

    Lensless extreme UV imaging could enable study of neurodegenerative diseases

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  11. May 11

    A new technique that efficiently retrieves scattered light from fluorescent sources can be used to record neuronal signals coming from deep within the brain.

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  12. May 11

    Increased automation and remote access for users might help some research facilities come back on line safely, as Laurence Bradley of explains.

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  13. May 11

    Where are the millions of tonnes of plastic we've released into the ocean? Answer - we don't know. Find out what scientists are doing to find our missing plastic pollution.

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  14. May 8

    Mumbai’s Plastic Ban is a short film – originally published in December 2018 – exploring the challenges of implementing a city–wide ban on single-use plastics. For more info on the global challenge of plastics waste, see latest issue of Physics World

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  15. May 8

    Satellite data are being used to explore links between pollution and -19, while land-use tracking could help to understand how pandemics emerge

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  16. May 8

    The universe is a bit disappointing, Tom Cruise could be filming in space, Hawking’s equations appear on Manx stamp - all in

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  17. May 7

    Researchers find association between iron deposition in the brain and both tau aggregation and neurodegeneration

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  18. May 7

    Max Planck, who discovered energy quantization while working on black-body radiation, later called his discovery an act of what...? For more quantum trivia quiz questions set by Caleb Rich, captain of the University Challenge team, visit

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  19. May 7

    In this week's podcast we chat with Daniel Twitchen about diamond-based quantum technologies and meet Caleb Rich, captain of the team that won this year's University Challenge.

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  20. May 7

    Can you beat the winning captain from TV’s University Challenge in his quantum quiz?

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