From vision-restoring implants to quantum-based diagnostics, Tami Freeman looks back at some of this year’s healthcare ...

Eye examination Age-related macular degeneration is a common eye disease that causes blurred vision or a blind spot in the central vision. (Courtesy: iStock/Rawpixel.jpg) A single dose of radiation ...

Elora McFall and Brendan Owens explain why the Institute of Physics is headed to the National Ploughing Championships as it works to smash stereotypes. The Institute of Physics (IOP) is the ...

Optical physicists Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for “groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.” Half of this year’s nine ...

Cosmic rays sound like something out of a superhero comic: invisible, traveling close to the speed of light, they are constantly shooting toward (and through) Earth from outer space. But they are real ...

Physicists have devised a new way to map the cornea that could improve the accuracy of laser eye surgery. The shape and thickness of the cornea are vital pieces of information for surgeons, who need ...

Predictions from quantum physics have been confirmed by countless experiments, but no one has yet detected the quantum physical effect of entanglement directly with the naked eye. This should now be ...

Last month, the city of Baltimore, Maryland, found itself host to the March Meeting of the American Physical Society. Around 7,500 physicists thronged the city's convention centre, mostly eschewing ...