Obituary: Gladys Mae West (1930-2026) mathematician who pioneered GPS technology go.nature.com/4jWMeM8

Giving your article a title is a delicate art...

This is your chance to work with our friends at Nature Reviews Materials -- highly recommended!

Opportunities and challenges of quantum batteries Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The Yang–Mills Millennium Prize problem is one of the great challenges of mathematical physics. In the quarter century since it was set, what progress has been made? Michael R Douglas looks at the problem from a physics point of view and surveys promising approaches www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The Yang–Mills Millennium Prize problem is one of the great challenges of mathematical physics. In the quarter century since it was set, what progress has been made? Michael R Douglas looks at the problem from a physics point of view and surveys promising approaches www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Opportunities and challenges of quantum batteries Dario Ferraro, Fabio Cavaliere, Marco G. Genoni, Giuliano Benenti & Maura Sassetti discuss the pursuit of more efficient and scalable quantum energy storage devices www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Happy birthday to Nature Reviews Methods Primers! 🎂

Happy new year!🎆 In our January issue: ▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions 🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs 🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials ⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

"What’s exciting is that we have the ability to search for asteroids, predict if one might hit us, and actually do something about it. So it’s cool science, and we can defend ourselves," says Kelly Fast, Acting Planetary Defense Officer for NASA ⚛️🔭🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This is relevant for a lot of physicists too: how much e-waste is out there? What happens to it? How could we handle it better? ⚛️

Quantum education in the UK is fragmented and poorly advertised. Raising awareness of available pathways is essential to meeting national quantum ambitions, argue Josephine Hunout, Shey Dylan Lovett, Jessica Wade & Isabella von Holstein ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM

Pascal Puphal, Thomas Schäfer, Bernhard Keimer & Matthias Hepting summarize progress in research on superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Yi Cui (崔一), Zewen Zhang, Robert Sinclair, Wah Chiu & Yi Cui (崔屹) look at sample preparation methods and imaging strategies to enable high-resolution imaging of beam-sensitive materials while avoiding electron-beam damage ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Dominik Kraus, Thomas R. Preston & Ulf Zastrau provide an overview of experimental techniques and summarize the past decade of XFEL research on warm dense matter ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

It's December, so our editors picked some papers we enjoyed reading this year and wrote about them 🧵⚛️ Nina Meinzer on a paper showing how sound can be used to determine properties of an optical pulse (1/4) www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A timeline cleanse for your Thursday: all our pretty 2025 covers 😍⚛️🧪

Our December editorial looks at what we've done this year and shows off our beautiful covers 🤩 Which is your favourite? (We can't choose just one) Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Our December reviews: ⚡Balancing innovation & safety in FLASH radiotherapy ☀️Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar & nuclear physics 🏍️Ultrafast physics with structured light 📋Protocols & tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Although sensing is one of the more established quantum technologies, translating quantum science into real-world biomedical impact requires further effort to overcome technical hurdles as well as structural and societal challenges, according to a Comment article in Nature Reviews Physics. 🔒

How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare A Comment from Alessandra Lo Fiego, Felix Donaldson, Umesh Vivekananda, Mete Atatüre, John J. L. Morton & Molly M. Stevens www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Understanding emergence in complex systems using abductive AI A Comment from Yong Li, Deliang Chen & colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Review: Ultrafast physics with structured light ⚛️ by Yiqi Fang, Zijian Lyu & Yunquan Liu www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Review: Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics ⚛️ by Mathis Wiedeking, Stephane Goriely, Magne Guttormsen, Falk Herwig, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Dennis Mücher, Andrea L. Richard, Sunniva Siem & Artemis Spyrou www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Review: Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions ⚛️ by Yuxin Zhao, Wenjie Liang & Yanli Zhao www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Perspective: Limitations and possibilities of topological photonics ⚛️ by Daniel Leykam, Haoran Xue, Baile Zhang & Y. D. Chong www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A nice review published by our friends at @natrevcleantech.nature.com

🎉We're celebrating 30 years of exoplanets around Sun-like stars, with a Technical Review, Comment, Q&A & Editorial🌟 ➕ Artificial gauge fields in photonics Timescales in mechanobiology Radiacoustic imaging The nuclear–AI analogy Sustainability in particle accelerators www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

FLASH radiotherapy delivers a cancer treatment dose in less than a second, reducing side effects while maintaining tumour control. A Review in Nature Reviews Physics explores what is needed to bring this promising ultra-fast radiotherapy approach into clinical practice. go.nature.com/42RkjpQ 🔒

New Review article: Magdalena Bazalova-Carter, Emil Schüler, Anthony Mascia & Marcel van Herk on balancing innovation and safety in FLASH radiotherapy www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Happy birthday to @natphys.nature.com! 🎂

ICYMI: Go to talks by women There is a growing push to host women speakers at conferences, but their talks are often less attended than men’s. We call on our readers to look out for — and go to — talks by women www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit." This Collection celebrates the contributions by the awardees. ⚛️ 🧪

Mechanobiology across timescales A Review by Bo Cheng, Moxiao Li, Min Lin, Hui Guo & Feng Xu ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunelling and and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" 🎉

Expert Recommendation: Protocols and tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research by Peter Bøggild & colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Still time to read these before tomorrow's announcement...

Our October Editorial: Go to talks by women ⚛️🧪 ➡️ Free to read here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Very nice to take part to this project with @natrevphys.nature.com and find out so many fun facts about Nobel prizes! Thanks for asking me to write this ❤️

Wolfgang Pauli played a central role in the development of quantum mechanics — much of it behind the scenes. But the exclusion principle, which he stated 100 years ago "in the form of the Ten Commandments”, has Pauli's name stamped on it. My brief essay for @natrevphys.nature.com rdcu.be/eJkam

Need some Friday reading? Our Nobel Prize retrospectives are out today and they're really fun ⚛️ First up, 99 years ago, the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded—a year late—to James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Zoe Budrikis looks at their oddly parallel lives: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Our October Editorial: Go to talks by women ⚛️🧪 ➡️ Free to read here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Our October issue is live!🎉 🦠Bacterial colonies 💠Point defects in metal halide perovskites ⬆️⬇️Platforms for Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids 💻Tensor networks for quantum computing ✨A condmat conference w/ all female speakers 🥳50 yrs of spin glass theory 🏅Nobel Prize stories www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Tools of the Trade: Saaj Chattopadhyay explains Morpho-Enhanced Polarization Microscopy ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

1975 was a big year for spin glass theory, so to mark the 50th anniversary we asked David Sherrington and Scott Kirkpatrick to share some of the history in a Comment ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Making particle accelerators sustainable has field-specific challenges. @hmwakeling.bsky.social, Philip Burrows, Jim Clarke, Jo Colwell, Ben Shepherd & John Thomason share how they collected relevant guidance and call on researchers in other fields to do the same ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

📢 We are thrilled to share the latest publication by our c:o/re alumni fellow Elisabeth Roehrlich, discussing why the debate over the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is full of comparisons between the rise of deep learning and the dawn of the nuclear age. Check it out ⤵️

A Friday afternoon read: If you've listened to debates about #AI #risk or #governance, you've probably heard someone make an analogy to #nuclear energy. In this Comment, Elisabeth Roehrlich (@univie.ac.at) looks at why that rhetorical move is so popular ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

In this new Perspective, Yifei Xu & Shawn Liangzhong Xiang look at progress in radiacoustic imaging in recent years, focusing on biomedical and materials science applications ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...