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Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kimberli Bell, Taylor M. Cannon, Amira M. Eltony, Chhavi Goenka, Abigail L. Gregg, Nathaniel Hai, Danielle J. Harper, Helen Keshishian, Nichaluk Leartprapun, Haley L. Marks, David O. Otuya, Linhui Yu
Science and society are inextricably entangled, but the discussion of social issues in optics and photonics is, at best, treated as peripheral to the field. A group of researchers, technicians, administrative staff, and clinical liaisons share how they came together to start a conversation recognizing these oft-disregarded issues.
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Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Chiara Caprini
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Olfactory cues and memories in animal navigation Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Thierry Emonet, Massimo Vergassola
Thierry Emonet and Massimo Vergassola discuss what research shows about how animals perform the feat of navigating by smell.
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How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Marine Luciano, Caterina Tomba, Aurélien Roux, Sylvain Gabriele
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AI is no substitute for having something to say Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
Good writing is about having something interesting and original to say. Generative AI tools might provide technical help, but they are no substitute for your unique perspective.
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Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Sibusiso Biyela, Kanta Dihal, Katy Ilonka Gero, Daphne Ippolito, Filippo Menczer, Mike S. Schäfer, Hiromi M. Yokoyama
Advances in generative AI could democratize science communication, by providing scientists with easy-to-use tools to help them communicate their work to different audiences. However, these tools are imperfect, and their output must be checked by experts. They can also be used maliciously to produce misinformation and disinformation. Seven researchers and science communicators weigh up the potential
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The importance of documenting failure Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Pietro Barabaschi
Pietro Barabaschi, Director General of ITER, calls for measures and incentives to carefully document the entire research process, including dead ends and failures, instead of reporting just the successful final results.
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A meeting point for art and science Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Iulia Georgescu, Mónica Bello
Mónica Bello, Curator and Head of Arts at CERN talks about the programmes that have been fostering the dialogue between artists and physicists for over a decade with the aim of exploring the cultural significance of fundamental research.
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A series of fast-paced advances in Quantum Error Correction Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Earl Campbell
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Using Bayesian parameter estimation to learn more from data without black boxes Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Rachel C. Kurchin
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Generative learning for nonlinear dynamics Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 William Gilpin
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The many facets of impact Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08
For Nature Reviews journals, the simplistic notion of high–low impact measured by citation-based metrics is inadequate. Instead, we should understand who is using these journals, and how.
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Food oral processing as a multiscale soft matter physics problem Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Thomas A. Vilgis
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The precision measurement of the W boson mass and its impact on physics Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Ashutosh V. Kotwal
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How detection and imaging technologies could make us better humans Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Iulia Georgescu, Una McCormack, Markus Nordberg
Una McCormack and Markus Nordberg, co-organizers of Science Fiction and the Future of Detection and Imaging, a series of workshops exploring the role of technology in future societies, share what they learned from these events. The organizers of Science Fiction and the Future of Detection and Imaging, a series of workshops exploring the role of technology in future societies, share what they learned
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Light–matter interactions in quantum nanophotonic devices Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Alejandro González-Tudela, Andreas Reiserer, Juan José García-Ripoll, Francisco J. García-Vidal
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Entanglement between a pair of top quarks Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Iulia Georgescu
The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN used data from 13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider to observe for the first time entanglement between a pair of top quarks.
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No sign of sterile neutrinos but anomalies remain Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Iulia Georgescu
No sign of sterile neutrinos was found in the latest, and most extensive, analysis done on data taken by the STEREO experiment and yet, the case is not closed.
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Bringing together science and fiction Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Iulia Georgescu, Connie Potter, Rob Appleby
Connie Potter and Rob Appleby, editors of Collision: Stories from the Science of CERN — an anthology of short science fiction stories — share how they brought creative writers, scientists and engineers to work together on this book.
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Topological phonons in graphene Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Ankita Anirban
A paper in Physical Review Letters identifies topological features in the phonon spectrum of graphene.
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Robustness and resilience of complex networks Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Oriol Artime, Marco Grassia, Manlio De Domenico, James P. Gleeson, Hernán A. Makse, Giuseppe Mangioni, Matjaž Perc, Filippo Radicchi
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Controlling light with air Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Ankita Anirban
A paper in Nature Photonics uses ambient air to deflect the path of high-power laser beams.
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Nature Reviews Physics turns five Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-09
As Nature Reviews Physics reaches its fifth birthday, we celebrate just how much high-quality content we have published so far, thanks to our authors, referees, in-house team and readers.
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Faster Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Zoe Budrikis
A paper in Physical Review X reports a new, faster, algorithm for Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions.
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Packing finite numbers of spheres efficiently Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Zoe Budrikis
A paper in Nature Communications reports experiments and simulations of spherical particles that help show how finite numbers of spheres pack in practice.
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Why a culture of brilliance is bad for physics Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Melis Muradoglu, Sophie H. Arnold, Aashna Poddar, Adam Stanaland, Duygu Yilmaz, Andrei Cimpian
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The Milky Way shines in high-energy neutrinos Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 M. Bustamante
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A survey on the complexity of learning quantum states Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Anurag Anshu, Srinivasan Arunachalam
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The physics of 3D printing with light Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Paul Somers, Alexander Münchinger, Shoji Maruo, Christophe Moser, Xianfan Xu, Martin Wegener
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A new chapter in the physics of firefly swarms Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Orit Peleg
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The quest for superheavy elements and the limit of the periodic table Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Odile R. Smits, Christoph E. Düllmann, Paul Indelicato, Witold Nazarewicz, Peter Schwerdtfeger
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Morphogenesis beyond in vivo Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Yue Liu, Xufeng Xue, Shiyu Sun, Norio Kobayashi, Yung Su Kim, Jianping Fu
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Using permanent magnets to reduce the impact of accelerators Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Ben Shepherd
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The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Joanna Marshall-Cook, Martin Farley
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Evolving critical oscillators for hearing Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 A. J. Hudspeth, Pascal Martin
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Impact of high growth rates on the microstructure and vortex pinning of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Teresa Puig, Joffre Gutierrez, Xavier Obradors
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A snapshot of 2023 Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-30
As we close volume 5 of Nature Reviews Physics, here are some highlights of the past year.
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How to beat the heat in cities through urban climate modelling Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jan Carmeliet, Dominique Derome
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Acoustic resonances in non-Hermitian open systems Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Lujun Huang, Sibo Huang, Chen Shen, Simon Yves, Artem S. Pilipchuk, Xiang Ni, Seunghwi Kim, Yan Kei Chiang, David A. Powell, Jie Zhu, Ya Cheng, Yong Li, Almas F. Sadreev, Andrea Alù, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko
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Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Andrew J. Daley
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How to verify the precision of density-functional-theory implementations via reproducible and universal workflows Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Emanuele Bosoni, Louis Beal, Marnik Bercx, Peter Blaha, Stefan Blügel, Jens Bröder, Martin Callsen, Stefaan Cottenier, Augustin Degomme, Vladimir Dikan, Kristjan Eimre, Espen Flage-Larsen, Marco Fornari, Alberto Garcia, Luigi Genovese, Matteo Giantomassi, Sebastiaan P. Huber, Henning Janssen, Georg Kastlunger, Matthias Krack, Georg Kresse, Thomas D. Kühne, Kurt Lejaeghere, Georg K. H. Madsen, Martijn
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Seventy-five years of quantum electrodynamics Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Chad Orzel
On the 75th anniversary of quantum electrodynamics, Chad Orzel reflects on the parallel work that led to the synthesis of the theory.
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Multigenerational visions and challenges for the future of particle physics Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Sarah Williams
Whatever big particle collider comes next, it will require decades of planning and construction. Sarah Williams discusses the pressing need to involve the younger generations in the current discussions and decisions. Sarah Williams discusses the pressing need to involve the younger generations in the current discussions and decisions about future big projects in particle physics.
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Physics or Doctor Who? Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02
In November, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who and challenge our readers with a quiz to spot the real physics terms amid the science fiction.
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Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Valerio Lucarini, Mickaël D. Chekroun
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Can a dual mandate be a model for the global governance of AI? Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Harry Law, Lewis Ho
Today’s hopes and fears related to the use of AI systems echo familiar concerns about nuclear technology. Harry Law and Lewis Ho discuss what can be learned from the dual mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to promote and control nuclear technologies. Today’s hopes and fears related to the use of AI systems echo familiar concerns about nuclear technology. What can be learned from
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Twenty-five years of the jamming phase diagram Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel
Twenty-five years after the proposal of a jamming phase diagram, Andrea Liu and Sidney Nagel discuss how linking jammed granular materials with glasses helps us understand the physics of many systems.
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How to incorporate climate change into high-school physics Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Melissa Lord
High-school students are all too aware of climate change, but often aren’t taught how their physics lessons can help them understand the problem and its solutions. Melissa Lord shares tips on how to bridge the gap.
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Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Alessio Recati, Sandro Stringari
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Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Meng Kang, Tao Liu, C. T. Chan, Meng Xiao
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Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Lishu Wu
Two recent studies report on progress in using 2D materials for photonic waveguides.
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How you can make physics sustainable Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-04
Making physics environmentally sustainable requires changes at all levels — individual, institutional and systemic — and all physicists have the chance to act, regardless of career stage. What needs to happen, and how can you get involved?
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Nobel 2003: superconductivity and superfluidity Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Saleem Denholme
20 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to to Vitaly Ginzburg, Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett.
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Energy-recovery linacs for energy-efficient particle acceleration Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Andrew Hutton
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Noncommuting conserved charges in quantum thermodynamics and beyond Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Shayan Majidy, William F. Braasch, Aleksander Lasek, Twesh Upadhyaya, Amir Kalev, Nicole Yunger Halpern
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Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Elena Belsole
40 years ago the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and William Alfred Fowler.
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Disordered mechanical metamaterials Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Michael Zaiser, Stefano Zapperi
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Nobel 1963: symmetries and shells Nat. Rev. Phys. (IF 38.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Alison Wright
60 years ago the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Eugene Wigner, J. Hans D. Jensen and Maria Goeppert Mayer.