9 D Universe

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has unveiled a bioluminescent dress that features 125 million living algae. The garment involved Herpen collaborating with designer Chris Bellamy as well as biophysicists Nico Schramma and Mazi Jalaal from the University of Amsterdam. Dress to impress: the “living” garment was part of van Herpen’s new [...]

Astronomers at the University of Hawai’i’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) in the US have detected what they say are the most energetic cosmic explosions known to have occurred since the the universe began. These colossal events, dubbed extreme nuclear transients (ENTs), emit at least 10 times as much energy as [...]

Researchers in Denmark have produced the acoustic equivalent of a rainbow, creating a structure that spatially decomposes sound into its component frequencies in free space. Developing such a structure had proven difficult due to the complexity required, but the team at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) managed it thanks to an [...]

This podcast features an interview with Sara Alderweireldt, who is a physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN – the world-famous physics lab that straddles the Swiss-French border and is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Based at the UK’s University of Edinburgh, Alderweireldt is in conversation with Physics [...]

Construction has begun on the new headquarters of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Yesterday, senior officials marked the start of construction on the new £93m centre at the University of Reading, which will provide cutting-edge meteorological research and forecasting. The ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental organization with 35 [...]

The UK technology industry is struggling with persistent challenges around diversity and inclusion. That is according to a new report by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, which concludes that despite some modest recent progress, all minority groups still remain significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. The tech startup ecosystem [...]

Author(s): Charles DayAn arrangement of spins known as a meron turns out to be easier to make in momentum space than in real space.[Physics 18, s91] Published Thu Jul 10, 2025 [...]

As they approach a black hole’s event horizon, particles of accreting gas can take on opposing orbital trajectories – remarkably similar to the paths produced in manmade particle colliders. Using advanced new models, Andrew Mummery at the University of Oxford, together with Joseph Silk at Sorbonne University, showed how such [...]

Author(s): Ryan WilkinsonA new algorithm efficiently ranks competitors in settings ranging from sports tournaments to food-preference surveys.[Physics 18, s80] Published Wed Jul 09, 2025 [...]

Author(s): Charles DayA mechanism for accelerating charged particles in astrophysical plasmas has been reproduced with cold atoms in an optical trap.[Physics 18, 131] Published Wed Jul 09, 2025 [...]

Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life emerge. Yet astronomers have long puzzled over where this vast amount of dust comes from and what it's made of. [...]

Using NuSTAR and XMM-Newton satellites, astronomers from New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi have observed a pulsar known as PSR J1930+1852 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN). Results of the observational campaign, published in The Astrophysical Journal, yield more insights into the PWN and the pulsar that powers it. [...]

Author(s): Ryan WilkinsonA fluid made of light can simulate a black hole’s boundary, providing insights into the mysterious quantum phenomena that occur at such a boundary.[Physics 18, s92] Published Tue Jul 08, 2025 [...]

Author(s): Susan CurtisExperiments with turbulent waves show that energy spreads from small to large scales, producing a steady-state regime that can be described using classical thermodynamics.[Physics 18, 129] Published Tue Jul 08, 2025 [...]

Author(s): Rachel BerkowitzEvidence builds against the long-held notion that water ice can be truly glassy.[Physics 18, s86] Published Mon Jul 07, 2025 [...]

Author(s): Sachin RawatA structural phenomenon traditionally confined to inanimate systems has now been observed in biology.[Physics 18, 128] Published Mon Jul 07, 2025 [...]