News Archives

25 Jun

Traceable random numbers from a non-local quantum advantage

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence

Gautam A. Kavuri, Jasper Palfree, Dileep V. Reddy, Yanbao Zhang, Joshua C. Bienfang, Michael D. Mazurek, Mohammad A. Alhejji, Aliza U. Siddiqui, Joseph M. Cavanagh, Aagam Dalal, Carlos Abellán, Waldimar Amaya, Morgan W. Mitchell, Katherine E. Stange, Paul D. Beale, Luís T. A. N. Brandão, Harold Booth, René Peralta, Sae Woo Nam, Richard...

23 May

News

¹³C₃-Perfluoropropanesulfonate (PFPrS)

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence

Cambridge Isotope Labs now offers a 13C3-perfluoropropanesulfonate (PFPrS) standard for ultrashort-chain (USC) PFAS analysis.Ultrashort-chain (USC) PFAS have been a significant focus in recent environmental and human exposure studies due to their detected presence in...

$light refracted through glass of water$

16 May

News, Spotlight

International Day of Light

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
International day of light, laser, physics, technology, Theodore Maiman, UNESCO

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-GeneralThe International Day of Light celebrates the role light plays in science, culture and art, education and sustainable development. Light continues to propel a range of diverse fields, such as medicine, communications and...

14 May

News

Pint of Science

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
event, keele university, pint of science, space, supercomputers, viruses

To provide a space for researchers and members of the public alike to come together, be curious, and chat about research in a relaxed environment outside of mysterious laboratories or daunting dark lecture theatres.Pint...

08 May

News, Review

Towards a Non-singular Paradigm of Black Hole Physics

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
black hole, Einstein, Event Horizon Telescope, LIGO, mimicker, physics, quantum, regular, Schwarzschild, singularities, theory of everything, theory of relativity

Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Francesco Di Filippo, Stefano Liberati, Matt Visser, Julio Arrechea, Carlos Barceló, Alfio Bonanno, Johanna Borissova, Valentin Boyanov, Vitor Cardoso, Francesco Del Porro, Astrid Eichhorn, Daniel Jampolski, Prado Martín-Moruno, Jacopo Mazza, Tyler McMaken, Antonio Panassiti, Paolo Pani, Alessia Platania, Luciano Rezzolla, Vania VellucciIn 1915, Einstein published his seminal work on general relativity. Also...

01 May

News, Review

Time Crystals: Defying the Laws of Physics

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
condensed matter, Floquet, nitrogen-vacancy, physics, quantum, quasicrystals, time crystals, Wilczek

Guanghui He, Bingtian Ye, Ruotian Gong, Changyu Yao, Zhongyuan Liu, Kater W. Murch, Norman Y. Yao & Chong Zu.In 2012, an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel Laureate named Frank Wilczek proposed the idea of a Time Crystal. Frank Wilczek is...

25 Apr

News

DNA Day

9 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
biology, biotechnology, DNA, genes, genomics, Human Cell Atlas, human genome project

Est. April 2003 22 Years on from the ground breaking feat of mapping the entire human genome The human genome project remains one of the world's largest collaborative biological projects to be undertaken to date. Twenty...

16 Apr

News, Review

Dark Oxygen: What this means for the origin of life?

9 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
dark oxygen, Nature, photosynthesis, SCOC, seafloor

Andrew K. Sweetman, Alycia J. Smith, Danielle S. W. de Jonge, Tobias Hahn, Peter Schroedl, Michael Silverstein, Claire Andrade, R. Lawrence Edwards, Alastair J. M. Lough, Clare Woulds, William B. Homoky, Andrea Koschinsky, Sebastian Fuchs, Thomas Kuhn, Franz Geiger & Jeffrey J. Marlow It has long been established that the origin...

28 Mar

News, Review

Phosphate-enabled mechanochemical PFAS destruction for fluoride reuse

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
fluoride, forever chemicals, persistent organic pollutants, PFAS, University of Oxford

Long Yang, Zijun Chen, Christopher A. Goult, Thomas Schlatzer, Robert S. Paton & Véronique Gouverneur For decades, research into the severity and prevalence of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has been at the forefront of many institutional...

14 Mar

News

Pi Day: The Most Studied Number in Mathematics

9 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
Einstein, Pi, Pi day, William Jones

This unique number has been a vital part of everything from arches and bridges to the Pyramids of Giza.• The symbol for Pi has been in use for over 250 years. The Greek letter...