Given their tiny size, individual atoms are notoriously tricky to see and manipulate, but finding ways to do so would be extremely useful. The invention of the laser in the 1960s eventually led to the ...

US Futurologist Michio Kaku 'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics' In his best-selling book "Physics of the Future," American professor Michio Kaku lays out his vision for the world in ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

A new and much faster way of analysing the gravitational lensing of light has been developed by physicists at Stanford University in the US. The technique is 10 million times faster than conventional ...

Imagine being able to access the Internet through the contact lenses on your eyeballs. Blink, and you'd be online. Meet someone, and you'd have the ability to immediately search their identity. And if ...

Cosmic journey Michael Dine takes you on a tour of some of the biggest questions in science such as the nature of dark matter. (Courtesy: iStock/3000ad) Written by Michael Dine – a theoretical ...