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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

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even more powerful kind of metamaterial that can teach us about the wild frontiers of physics

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I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

Mind

I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

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Cracked blue bowl with equations, stars, planets and galaxies decorating its exterior. It is cracked but golden glue sticks it back together.

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

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Estuaries near the coast of Guinea?Bissau branch out like a network of roots from a plant. With their long tendrils, the rivers meander through the country?s lowland plains to join the Atlantic Ocean. On the way, they carry water, nutrients, but also sediments out from the land. This natural?color image captures the movement of the sediments as the rivers move east to west. The image was acquired on May 17, 2018, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. The discoloration is most apparent in Rio Geba, which runs past the country?s capital city of Bissau. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/the-meandering-estuaries-of-guineabissau-92266/

Environment

Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?

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A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

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A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

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The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health

Health

The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health

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Astronaut running during sunset at a remote planet

Health

How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing

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Fossil skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex

Life

The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs

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The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness

Mind

The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness

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Abigail Marsh

Mind

This neuroscientist says some psychopaths wish they were nicer

Abigail Marsh has found that many psychopaths don’t want to be cruel and uncaring, and argues that they deserve support to help them get there

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Technology

A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler

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Physics

Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together

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Space

Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an 'impossible' particle detector

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Humans

How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history

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