Daniel Shaddock is co-founder of Liquid Instruments and professor of physics at the Australian National University in Canberra. He spoke with Hamish Johnston about innovation in the test and ...

A U.S. research lab has announced one of the most precise measurements ever of how a subatomic particle behaves, teeing up a showdown that could either vindicate one of science’s most powerful ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

The Quantum Physics Division (QPD) has a diverse range of programs, including nanotechnology and biological physics, but it continues its firm and unified base in metrology, appropriate for the ...

A transportable ytterbium optical lattice clock has been commercially shipped, rapidly recommissioned, and tested against ...

Here at Physics World we’re planning to publish special issues later this year on time (in July) and on SI units and measurement (in November). So to find out more about the latest work in these ...

When hundreds of physicists gathered on a Zoom call in late February to discuss their experiment’s results, none of them knew what they had found. Like doctors in a clinical trial, the researchers at ...

On April 7, particle physicists all over the world were excited and energized by the announcement of a measurement of the behavior of muons—the heavier, unstable subatomic cousins of electrons—that ...