Find out how physicists are supporting the green economy with John Browne from BeyondNetZero, Emily Nurse from the UK’s Climate Change Committee, former Sizewell C boss David Cole, Imperial PV physicist Jenny Nelson and Nellie Technologies founder Stephen Milburn.🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/what-physi...

Photonic glasses produce high-purity colours across the visible spectrum, independent of viewing angle. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/hE5b50Z6v8c

Can you create a computer out of a 1990s children's toy? In principle, yes: physicists at EPFL and AMOLF have found a practical means of writing mechanical bits into slap-bracelet-like objects by placing them on a precisely rotating turntable. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...

Quantum sensor takes the internal temperature of cancer cells. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/7nyM50Z5FIR

LLMs have made major advances in solving problems formulated by the renowned 20th-century mathematician Paul Erdős. Where does that leave human mathematicians?🧪 physicsworld.com/a/ai-led-sol...

A combination of millimetre-wave radar and machine learning could distinguish between bees and wasps with 96% accuracy. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/radar-iden...

With the US about to celebrate its 250th birthday, Robert P Crease reimagines the Declaration of Independence for the 21st century. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/what-a-mod...

It hasn't happened yet, but new results from Google Quantum AI and the atom computing start-up Oratomic suggest that elliptic curve cryptography and RSA could be under threat from #quantum computers sooner than many scientists predicted. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-findin...

A new approach published in #OPG_Optica and @natureportfolio.nature.com combines wavefront shaping with entangled photons to make scattering media transparent to #quantum light while remaining opaque to classical light. @physicsworld.bsky.social 💡⚛️

Meanwhile in Australia, we still don't have a single proton therapy unit in the entire country, not even a traditional supine one. We are being left out of the international conversation, and patients are missing out on standard cancer therapies. 😢

A precise calculation of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment puts to rest the possibility of that property revealing physics beyond the Standard Model – for now. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/HOCa50Z4crr

A debate at the recent ESTRO 2026 meeting concluded with nearly 70% of the audience agreeing that upright proton therapy will become a standard radiotherapy delivery option by 2035. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/estro-deba...

By combining wavefront shaping with entangled photons, researchers have made a scattering material that's transparent to entangled photons while remaining opaque to classical light. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/entangled-...

Noisy circuits are the bane of many computing paradigms, but thermodynamic computing uses noise as a resource. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/qhzu50Z2GWA

A new MRI technique called multiplexed MRI enables simultaneous mapping of multiple molecular signals using a standard clinical 3 T MRI scanner. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/multiplexe...

Electron beams rearrange atoms in a 3D crystal, creating structures not found in nature. This could have implications for quantum simulation and atomic-scale manufacturing. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/aI8j50Z2cj7

After >15 years of conflicting results, the debate over the charge radius of the proton appears to be settled: it's smaller than we used to think. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...

People have been using reinforced rubber for nearly a century, but we still don’t know why it’s so strong. Researchers at the University of South Florida now say they may have the answer thanks to advanced molecular dynamics simulations. physicsworld.com/a/why-is-rub...

Researchers used a nonlinear metasurface to demonstrate that skyrmions can be switched between electric and magnetic modes in free-space toroidal terahertz light pulses. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/switchable...

If dark matter has a tiny electric charge, it will generate a magnetic “hum” in Earth’s magnetic field. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/ur4p50Z18G8

Researchers in China developed a new way of probing magnetic domains within altermagnetic materials. Using the giant magneto-optical Kerr effect, they showed that haematite shares certain properties with ferromagnets despite having a near-zero net magnetization. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/altermagne...

Signs of an atom-like system with a neutral meson bound to a nucleus via the strong interaction have emerged in data from two international collaborations. If confirmed, the result could shed light on quantum chromodynamics and the origins of hadron masses. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...

The theory of quantum electrodynamics predicts that high-intensity light can interact with the vacuum, converting energy directly into matter. To prove it, we'd need laser systems 1x10^6 times more intense than we have now. This result suggests it may be possible. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/einsteins-...

Scientists have found a non-invasive way to generate light deep within living tissues. The method uses ultrasound to trigger luminescence in nanoparticles travelling through the bloodstream, and it could be used in gene and cancer therapies. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ultrasound...

A motion-resolved MRI method can assess the heart’s oxygen consumption in just three minutes - and could help in the early detection of cardiac dysfunction. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/non-invasi...

Materials used in fusion reactors must withstand an extremely hot plasma and neutron bombardment. The UKAEA's Jacob John talks about the challenges and solutions. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/MEwH50YWbpm

How Artemis II took humans back to the Moon – my latest article for @physicsworld.bsky.social . It was a privilege to write in depth about such an amazing mission. physicsworld.com/a/one-giant-...

A new analysis of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory shows that the energy spectrum of cosmic neutrinos is unexpectedly complex. Possible explanations include novel neutrino sources, alternative production mechanisms and interactions with dark matter. 🧪⚛️ 🔭 physicsworld.com/a/gap-in-neu...

A memristor that can operate at temperatures over 700 °C could enable electronic systems to withstand harsh conditions with less need for cooling. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/memory-dev...

New insight into the mechanisms underlying how tumour treating fields kill cancer cells could help optimize treatment of the brain cancer glioblastoma. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/decoupling...

First-in-human study shows how proton therapy could provide a new treatment option for patients with hard-to-treat ventricular tachycardia, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/proton-the...

Structural colour images printed with a unique nanoparticle ink can be both highly transparent to transmitted light and at the same time reflect light from above in vivid colours – two properties that are typically considered mutually exclusive. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/researcher...

One of quantum mechanics’ strangest properties may be the secret ingredient that makes powerful #quantum computers possible. Known as contextuality, it plays a central role in error-correcting codes, which protect quantum information from noise. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/the-weirdn...

Physics and finance have much in common – especially at the frontiers of quantitative analysis. Find out more from five physicists who’ve moved from the lab to the trading floor: Antonia Lim, Ashreya Jayaram, Han Lee, Benjamin McRoberts and Sean Chang. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/trading-pl...

Large language models could help human scientists identify interesting & unexplored research topics, say scientists @kit.edu. The model analysed abstracts in materials science publications and mapped connections between different concepts. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ai-could-h... #AI

Theory predicts that stars in a middling-to-high "forbidden" mass range can't form black holes. A new statistical analysis of gravitational-wave data on black hole binaries appears to back that up. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/evidence-f...

Reviewer 2: "I have never seen real optical phase singularities drifting around over time and crashing into each other, so the supplementary video alone was very enjoyable to watch." (It is indeed a bit mesmerizing to watch the interplay of light and dark.)

No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” -Terry Pratchett

Dark points within light waves can travel faster than the waves themselves. This finding confirms a 50-year-old prediction and could help push atomic-scale imaging past its current limits. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/darkness-c...

Inspired by the tiny “bumblebee” bat, a palm-sized aerial robot can efficiently navigate in confined, dark and cluttered environments. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/bat-inspir...

By including weights associated with particles, physicists have expanded the concept of hyperuniformity of multi-particle systems.🧪⚛️ ow.ly/OaA950YQJql

Newton’s and Einstein’s theories of gravity apply across distances of hundreds of millions of light–years, galaxy-cluster study suggests. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/wF8v50YP4n8

What are the barriers to translation and commercialization of medical physics research, and how can these be overcome? New report examines the next steps. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/report-hig...

A photonic 3D integrated circuit can be tuned to deliver laser light across a broad spectrum of visible and infrared wavelengths. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/UL3N50YOE7i

How do you miniaturize UHV systems to create portable quantum sensors? Aquark's Florence Concepcion is working on solutions. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/Vn7n50YOAbS

What are the "dirty words" in the fusion and fission nuclear energy industries? Our online editor @drmlharris.bsky.social found out at a pair of back-to-back conferences in London last week. 🧪 ⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/the-dirtie...

Victoria Merriman from IOP Publishing reports from an #APSSummit26 satellite event held at the University of Dschang in Cameroon, bringing physicists from across central Africa together. physicsworld.com/a/shining-a-...

Got a quantum invention? Physicist-turned-patent-attorney Mark Saunders explains why you might need to think protecting it with patents and other forms of IP. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/why-patent...

Scientists have developed a language model that designs novel setups for quantum optics experiments, a capability that could accelerate research in areas such as quantum computing and quantum communication. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/meta-desig...

By supercooling liquid water to -63 C and probing it with ultrafast laser pulses before it could freeze, scientists at Stockholm University found that it undergoes a transition between two different liquid phases – a long-predicted liquid-liquid critical point. physicsworld.com/a/scientists... ⚛️🧪