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Physics World August 2024

Physics World August 2024

Sprinting to success: how basilisk lizards race across water

Could athletes mimic basilisk lizards and turn water-running into an Olympic sport? That's the question Nicole Sharp asks as she investigates nature's most extraordinary sprinters, which perform some amazing feats of biology. Also this month, Keith Cooper explores the conflict between two leading theories of dark matter and whether WIMPs or axions will reign supreme. Meanwhile, Alistair Bounds, who works for UK medical tech firm Occuity, explains how certain eye-screening technologies could help us non-invasively detect and monitor chronic diseases that are otherwise hard to spot.

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The CMS detector at CERN research update

Speed of sound taken in a ‘quark soup’

The pink trainers of a runner splashing through water against a black background

Could humans run on water?

Norled's ship, MF Hydra, running on liquid hydrogen opinion

Shipping going green

Fibre optics opinion

Through the optical crystal ball

A basilisk lizard running across water feature

How to run on water

Gianluigi Botton interview

Diamond’s cutting edge

The Antikythera Mechanism: artistic rendering of the oldest analogue computer opinion

Antikythera mystery

Hands holding a small piece of medical equipment in front of a patient's eye feature

Oculomics: a window to the health of the body

galaxy cluster collision MACSJ0025 feature

WIMPs versus axions

A 1950s children's board game called Uranium Rush review

Going wild for uranium

Laura Tobin careers

Laura Tobin won’t stop talking about climate change

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