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The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation

Forty years after the world’s biggest nuclear disaster, the safety of Chernobyl hangs in the balance – though not because of the radiation risk

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What would the horizon look like on a disc-shaped planet? part 3

Regulars

Physics

The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China

Comment

Scientist of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 15, 2025. Anatoly Doroshenko

Physics

The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

Features

Chernobyl 2022

Physics

Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

Features

Physics

Quantum batteries could be charged by reversing time

News

Physics

Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton

News

Physics

Quantum entanglement can be measured in solids for the first time

News

Professor Sir John Pendry FRS, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London, who has made seminal contributions to research in metamaterials and photonics, surface science, and disordered systems and localisation. Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and the super high-speed computer chips of the future are just some of the practical applications of Sir John's theoretical research.

Physics

The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

Features

Physics

Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time

By tracing the origins of an unusual, short-lived particle, researchers have gathered some of the strongest evidence yet that mass can emerge from fluctuations in the vacuum

News

Physics

How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end

Comment

Physics

We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together

Features

Video

CERN upgrade: Inside the world's largest scientific experiment

Video

Physics

A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

Features