Engineering stories whose deep dive explains quantum and particle physics, ready to use as a starter, a reading task or a real-world example. Each one links to the GCSE and A level curriculum.
Electronics & Communications
There's a saying in physics that at first seems contradictory: the quantum vacuum is not empty. Even when space is freed of all matter…
Deep dive: Terahertz Cavities and the Art of Shaping Nothing
Automotive & Transport
JLR's first fully electric Range Rover uses an 800-volt battery system with silicon carbide inverters, built on the same Solihull production line as its…
Deep dive: 800-Volt Architecture and Why Voltage Matters
Electronics & Communications
An atomically thin transistor breakthrough from NYCU and TSMC uses a 0.42nm interface layer to push chip performance beyond today's silicon limits.
Deep dive: What a Gate Dielectric Actually Does
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
University of Vienna researchers extended magnon lifetimes by 100x to 18 microseconds, opening a path to magnon quantum computing on a chip.
Deep dive: from spin waves to quantum processors
Space
Five states of matter exist. Most people learn about four states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. The fifth is rarer, stranger, and…
Deep dive: Cold Atoms, Quantum Waves, and the Physics of Absolute Zero
Energy & Environment
Solar panels are, at heart, a compromise. Every photovoltaic cell is tuned to absorb light at a particular range of wavelengths. Photons above that…
Deep dive: How a Perovskite Tandem Solar Module Works
HealthBreakthroughs
MIT engineers built a carbon nanotube catheter that detects bladder cancer biomarkers 50,000 times better than standard tests and maps tumour location.
Deep dive: The Science Behind Nanotube Catheter Cancer Detection
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
A new thin-film coating lets solar panels generate electricity from raindrops and sunlight simultaneously, producing over 100 volts per droplet impact.
Deep dive: Triboelectric Nanogenerators and Perovskite Solar Cells
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
Chinese researchers achieved a 1,000-fold increase in 2D semiconductor manufacturing speed using a liquid gold CVD technique for next-generation chips.
Deep dive: Why 2D semiconductor manufacturing could reshape electronics
Electronics & CommunicationsInnovation
Britain's national railway becomes the first in the world to test quantum navigation, using ultra-sensitive sensors to track train position without GPS.
Deep dive: How quantum navigation tracks a train without GPS
Energy & Environment
EPFL and CSEM researchers achieve a certified 30.02% efficiency with a perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cell, beating the previous 27.1% record.
Deep dive: Why Stacking Semiconductors Beats Using One