A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in Reading, UK. The hot region, which had a temperature of over 750 K, ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

The world’s smallest temporary pacemaker is self-powered, optically controlled and dissolves when it’s no longer needed ...

A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...

Founded in 2020, CISM moved into a new, state-of-the-art £50m building in 2023 and is now in its first full year of operation. Meredith explains how technological innovation and skills training at ...

Harvard University is the suing the US government over its plan to block up to $9bn of government research grants to the institution ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human vision. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Oz works by stimulating ...

Researchers in Canada are developing a low-cost orthovoltage radiotherapy system for use in low-resource and geographically remote regions ...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable the flow of information between the brain and an external device such as a computer, ...

A proposed experiment that would involve trapping atoms on a two-layered laser grid could be used to study the mechanism ...