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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Brian Pogue, who is professor of biomedical engineering at ...

Physicists have engineered light to drift sideways in discrete, quantized steps inside a fiber-optic loop, reproducing a ...

For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully harnessed a rare orbital transition in atoms of ...

Two Americans and a German won the Nobel Prize in physics for optics research that is improving the accuracy of such ...

In the three decades since CERN made Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web freely and openly available to everyone, we’ve got used to exchanging extraordinary amounts of data. One way of keeping up with ...

While often described as a moonshot for missile defense, the Golden Dome for America mission is in reality something even more challenging: an exercise in disciplined systems engineering under threat.