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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.

The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

8 April 2026

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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How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war

24 February 2026

Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could the nation's drone expertise help it rebuild? To learn more, �鶹��ý gained exclusive access to the research labs, factories and military training...

Smartphones (yes, really): Best ideas of the century

19 January 2026

Some might say smartphones have caused more harm than good. Here’s why putting a powerful computer into every pocket was a good idea

Aree Aupeia, 32, standing on the sea front near a house that gets regularly flooded during high tide events. The village is regularly flooded during high tides despite residents attempts to build sea walls or take care of those that were built by the local government, but frequent big waves continue to damage them, putting resident's houses, and gardens under the constant threat.

The Pacific Islanders fighting to save their homes from catastrophe

13 January 2026

Some of climate change's sharpest realities are being felt on small island nations, where extreme weather is claiming homes and triggering displacement. Those able to stay are spearheading inventive adaptation techniques in a bid to secure their future

The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

25 November 2025

Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we’re discovering we can train them to be even more efficient

The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

10 March 2025

Quantum fridges, batteries and clocks are brilliant inventions but still limited in power. Now physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern is charting a path to take them to the next level

Nalini Nadkarni, the ecologist revealing the secrets of cloud forests

28 March 2023

How a pioneering canopy researcher unlocked the mysteries of an extraordinary ecosystem and the unlikely tree-dwelling plants it depends on

Hybrid AI: A new way to make machine minds that really think like us

16 February 2022

In the quest to make artificial intelligence that can reason and apply knowledge flexibly, many researchers are focused on fresh insights from neuroscience. Should they be looking to psychology too?

Do you speak elephant? With this new dictionary you will

3 November 2021

An ambitious directory of elephant behaviours and vocalisations offers amazing insights into their minds and culture – and could help save these magnificent beasts from extinction

'Ionic wind' could power planes, save energy and fight wild weather

6 October 2021

Airflow induced by electric fields, known as ionic wind, has already propelled a small aircraft – now engineers think it could help to ease the clean-energy transition and protect infrastructure from natural winds