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Thin-film solar cells make champion harvesters of ambient light

Cadmium telluride photovoltaics could power Internet of Things devices

COVID-19 pandemic has made weather forecasts less reliable

Dearth of commercial flights means fewer meteorological observations

Did a supernova trigger the late Devonian extinction?

Isotopic evidence could be lurking in the fossil record

Earth’s atmosphere rings like a giant bell, say researchers

Study confirms 200-year-old prediction by Pierre-Simon Laplace

Stiffer road surfaces could cut greenhouse-gas emissions

Carbon nanotubes could reduce road deformation by heavy vehicles

Solar geoengineering could cause unwanted changes in climate, new modelling suggests

Bid to mitigate global warming could stagnate weather systems

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Why COVID-19 could make physicists kick some of their habits forever

The mystery of missing marine plastic

Oceanographers are not sure where all the plastics are ending up in the world’s oceans

Plastic that doesn’t cost the Earth

With the pressure on to reduce our plastic pollution, scientists and innovators are developing new methods of reusing, retrieving and recycling. Anna Demming investigates

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What happened to all the plastic we released into the oceans?

Blue energy: innovative ways of harnessing energy from the oceans

Taking a bird’s-eye view of Chernobyl

Latest articles

Removal and inactivation of bacteria and virus with an electrochemical CNT filter

Join the audience for a live webinar on 26 August 2020 sponsored by The Electrochemical Society

The e-bike revolution

Electric bikes are all the rage, but James McKenzie wonders if the future lies with a minimalist kit that can be retrofitted to an ordinary bicycle

Artificial intelligence spots unusual feature at Earth’s core-mantle boundary

Astrophysics algorithm is applied to seismic waves

Hydrogel helps make self-cooling solar panels

New technology could be an environmentally friendly way to cool down photovoltaics and other devices

Ultraporous metal-organic frameworks could make clean energy carriers

The materials can store large amounts of hydrogen and methane in their nanoscopic pores

Cyanobacteria and nanomaterials give solar cell a boost

Photosynthesizing micro-organisms are at the heart of a new biophotovoltaic cell

Ammonia emissions can drive urban smog formation

CLOUD experiment at CERN highlights the importance of controlling ammonia emissions in urban environments

Colourful bilayer paint can cool buildings by reflecting sunlight

Coating comes in a range of colours and could be used in summer clothing

Electrochemical CO₂ reduction: finding a path towards a carbon-neutral chemical industry

Available to watch now, The Electrochemical Society partners with Admiral Instruments, Scribner Associates, Hiden Analytical explores the status of CO2 electrocatalysis

Intricacies of high-energy cathodes for lithium-ion batteries

Available to watch now, The Electrochemical Society partners with Admiral Instruments, Hiden Analytical, and Royal Society of Chemistry to explore the development of oxide cathodes...

New directions for energy from sunlight

Available to watch now, The Electrochemical Society partners with Admiral Instruments, ACS Photonics and Gamry Instruments explores using sunlight as a resource

Lidar tracks mosquito behaviour by monitoring wingbeats

Laser-based technology can distinguish between male and female insects

Tracking elephant rumbles without breaking the bank

Low-cost seismo-acoustic device could enable elephant monitoring for ecology and conservation

Space agencies redirect resources to support COVID-19 studies

Earth-observation data can help to manage and better understand the pandemic

The search for the missing plastic

There are millions of tonnes of plastic in our oceans, but we can’t find it. Marric Stephens investigates how we’re searching for this elusive missing waste

Avoid, track, recycle: solutions to the problem of plastic waste

Check out the May 2020 issue of Physics World, which is a special edition on plastic waste

NASA satellite missions track 16 years of Earth’s melting ice sheets

Data from NASA’s ICESat and ICESat-2 missions reveal that ice sheet losses from Greenland and Antarctica have contributed 14 mm to sea level rise since 2003

Physics World unwrapped

Susan Curtis examines alternatives to the polythene wrapping used to mail magazines – and reveals what Physics World will be switching to

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