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Physics breakthroughs don’t always require city-sized particle colliders or giant radio telescope arrays. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , the Simons Foundation , the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation have partnered to fund 11 innovative “tabletop” experiments, many of which will explore...

What made the cosmos go from darkness to radiant? Researchers at the University of Cambridge have gone further in time than ever before to uncover crucial insights on the role of younger, low-mass galaxies with bursty star formation in this transformation, known at the epoch of Reionization. Studying a representative...

Chiara Ciccarelli has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to support her career as she pursues her most promising scientific ideas into ultra-energy-efficient data storage solutions. Chiara Ciccarelli’s research focuses on magnets and ways to write and read their magnetic state as...

Scientists in a team led by Prof Malte Grosche from the University of Cambridge have observed how electron-electron interactions can transform a conductor into an insulator. Their experiment, which combined extreme pressures, low temperatures, and high magnetic fields, showed that as the interaction strength increases, the...