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In NPL's Quantum Materials and Sensors group, we study the nanoscale properties of emerging quantum materials, including graphene, photonic metamaterials, and topological insulators. Recently the pioneering nature of our ...

In the early 1600s, based on astronomical observations, Kepler established that the orbit described by a planet in the solar system is an ellipse, with the sun occupying one of its foci. Assuming that a planet is subject ...

There are only four known species of horseshoe crabs alive today. But the fossil record shows that hundreds of millions of years ago they came in a huge range of shapes and sizes.

From chlorinated chicken to hormone-injected beef, the UK's food supply could soon change for the worse if a series of new trade deals come into force.

Research published today in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut—92% of which were previously unknown.

A coronavirus may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago, leaving traces in the DNA of people in modern China, Japan and Vietnam. Our research, published in Current Biology, found evidence of genetic adaptation ...

The relationship between structure and function is of interest in many research fields involving the study of complex biological processes. For example, it is challenging to infer the function of a protein by looking at its ...

Much of the brittle, upper crust of Venus is broken into fragments that jostle and move—and the slow churning of Venus' mantle beneath the surface might be responsible. My colleagues and I arrived at this finding using ...

In our article just released at European Science Editing, we examine open access (OA) publication practices in earth sciences journals in six countries around the world. Until the earth sciences community decides to move ...

The LIGO gravitational wave observatory in the United States is so sensitive to vibrations it can detect the tiny ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. These waves are caused by colliding black holes and other ...

Diversity drives innovative research at every step along the scientific path. Scientific societies, like the Geochemical Society (GS) and the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), have a significant influence over which ...

It's a familiar vision to anyone who has watched a lot of action movies or played Call of Duty: a ghostly green image that makes invisible objects visible. Since the development of the first night-vision devices in the mid-1960s, ...