Women in Quantum: an interview with Ilana Wisby As founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), she helped shape Europe’s quantum landscape, championed love-based leadership, and is now building a new venture in stealth. rdcu.be/ePTsP

Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. It is time for a real change that calls for a different kind of force and for the participation of everyone. rdcu.be/eOKTB

Reviewer of the month: Breanna Binder is an Associate Professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is interested in characterizing high-mass X-ray binary populations in nearby galaxies, using them as tracers of star formation and endpoints of massive stellar evolution.

Welcoming Sophie Roman and Brato Chakrabarti to our Editorial Board. They bring expertise in flow microdynamics, geochemistry, biophysics, and soft and active matter.

Our featured article, September 2025: Predicting fracture in disordered network materials using the local intelligent stress threshold indicator. rdcu.be/eLnhe

Our featured article, September 2025: Emergent Wigner phases in moiré superlattice from deep learning. rdcu.be/eLngV

Our featured article, September 2025: Highly efficient broadband THz mixing and upconversion with Dirac materials. rdcu.be/eLnfl

Our featured article, September 2025: Hybridization of lattice and charge order excitations in a superconducting cuprate. rdcu.be/eLncB

Dominik Juraschek is our Outstanding Reviewer for October 2025. He is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research lies at the interface of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational materials science.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Nature Portfolio recognises the achievements of the Laureates in this collection. www.nature.com/collections/...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. Nature Portfolio presents a collection that celebrates the contributions by the awardees and the technological advances they have enabled. www.nature.com/collections/...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been 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.”

Nobel Prize in Physics — 11:45 CEST stream from Stockholm. Watch the official announcement here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FU...

This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, and data-driven models that converge on measurable, designable odd responses in soft systems. www.nature.com/collections/...

This Focus Collection in Communications Physics aims to bring together research from diverse aspects of physical biology, focusing on the interplay of physical laws, bacterial behaviour and physiology. www.nature.com/collections/...

This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports brings together the advances in Crystal polymorphism in Soft and Functional Materials. www.nature.com/collections/...

Women in Quantum: an interview with Marilù Chiofalo — on leadership, inclusion, and the future of quantum technologies. rdcu.be/eHXXV

Women in Quantum: an interview with Gloria Platero — on mentorship, inclusive research ecosystems, semiconductor quantum dots, and the future of quantum technologies. rdcu.be/eHYhl

Interpreting molecular ratchets, directionality, and kinetic asymmetry through the work of Curie, Einstein, and Lewis : A Perspective rdcu.be/eE84X

Our featured article, August 2025: Active adaptolates featuring motility-induced percolating structures with an adaptive packing geometry rdcu.be/eEt01

Our featured article, August 2025: Long-lived optical coherence and spin lifetimes in Eu³⁺:Y₂O₃ oxide ceramics for quantum memories rdcu.be/eEtXz

Our featured article, August 2025: Manipulating photodissociation dynamics via an embedding UV pulse rdcu.be/eEtM3

Our featured article, August 2025: Josephson diode effect in nanowire-based Andreev molecules rdcu.be/eEtNa

This month, we welcome five new members to our Editorial Board: Lu Chen, Marlies Goorden, Inhyuk Nam, Jun-yu (Bruce) Yu, Jasminder Sindhu. They bring expertise in very broad and diverse areas, reflecting the growth of the journal.

Outstanding reviewer, August 2025: Rajasekhar Medapalli is an Editor for Advanced Functional Materials at Wiley with a research background in ultrafast and localised light-matter interactions governing the interplay between electrons, spins, and the lattice.

Our featured article July, 2025 Topological Weyl altermagnetism in CrSb Altermagnets constitute a novel fundamental class of magnetic materials, alongside with ferro- and antiferromagnets. The authors connect altermagnetism to the world of topology. rdcu.be/eBBSF

Our featured article July, 2025 Novel spin dynamics in the superconducting state of kagomé superconductor rdcu.be/eBBRp

Our featured article July, 2025 Ultrathin 3R-MoS₂ metasurfaces with atomically precise edges for nonlinear nanophotonics: The study employs top-down lithography and anisotropic wet etching to fabricate atomically precise, ultrathin metasurfaces for effecient second-harmonic generation. rdcu.be/eAS1d

Our featured article July, 2025 On shape classification in crystal growth simulations: This study combines disentangling autoencoders with spherical harmonic descriptors to map continuous transformations between crystal morphologies while preserving crystallographic principles. rdcu.be/eASRr

Tensor networks for lattice gauge theories beyond one dimension: Here is a review of the state of the art, a roadmap for algorithmic developments, and resource estimates to guide applications in high-energy physics. rdcu.be/eAhXx

Georgios Koutentakis is our outstanding reviewer of the month. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, where he develops theoretical frameworks for interacting ultracold atoms and molecules.

The discovery of superconductivity in the nickelates offers the opportunity to gain further insight into the mechanisms of unconventional superconductivity. Here, the authors employ epitaxial strain to investigate superconductivity in La₃Ni₂O₇ thin films. rdcu.be/evk0w

The rise of multi-Petawatt lasers opens new frontiers in exploring the quantum vacuum. This study presents real-time 3D simulations of vacuum birefringence and four-wave mixing, based on a semi-classical numerical solver integrated into a Particle-In-Cell code OSIRIS. rdcu.be/evkW4

Optically actuated microrobots enable precise microscale manipulation, yet achieving multiple degrees of freedom remains challenging. This work presents a chiral microrobot driven by optical tweezers that achieves controlled out-of-plane rotation and exhibits versatile actuation modes. rdcu.be/evbgD

Analysis of a dataset tracking the evolution of social relationships among 900 individuals over four years reveals evidence of equilibrium dynamics in human social networks. rdcu.be/eva7P

A century of Bose–Einstein condensation: a testament to how curiosity-driven research can shape the course of scientific innovation in unexpected and exciting ways. rdcu.be/eurpg

Lachlan Lindoy is our outstanding reviewer of this month. He is a Senior Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. He develops theoretical techniques for the simulation of non-Markovian open quantum system dynamics with applications to condensed phase chemical and materials systems.

This cross-journal collection explores recent progress in high-energy light sources. We invite contributions of original research aimed at improving energy scaling, beam quality control, and stability for both well-established and emerging sources. www.nature.com/collections/...

Designing materials that adapt to their surroundings and change shape on command requires understanding the rules of statistical physics. In this collection, we invite significant original research, perspectives, and review articles on the geometry of soft systems. www.nature.com/collections/...

Our featured article, May 2025 The time resolution for X-ray imaging with synchrotron sources is limited by the speed of the detectors and large data sets to process. The authors implemented an inline dual-camera setup achieving temporal super-resolution for synchrotron X-ray imaging. rdcu.be/equSe

Our featured article, May 2025 Networks can be mapped onto hyperbolic spaces to reveal their structure, but previous methods only provided single "best" coordinates. Is it possible to detect multiple valid arrangements and provide confidence ranges that improve predictions? rdcu.be/equJR

Our featured article, May 2025 Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms can be useful for solving binary optimisation problems. The authors propose an improved initialisation strategy for the quantum part of the algorithm while requiring few classical computational resources. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our featured article, May 2025 Common assumption dictates that an egg exhibits greater structural resistance when dropped on it’s end rather than on its side. The authors test this by performing static and dynamic loading on hundreds of eggs, supported with finite element simulations. rdcu.be/eqiWV

Jennifer Sears is our outstanding reviewer of this month. Jennifer is an assistant scientist in the Condensed Matter Physics group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her research uses neutron scattering to study unconventional magnetism and charge order. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

Our featured article for April 2025 Quantum electrodynamics on a 1D lattice can lead to localization of charges, in contrast to the thermalizing dynamics. This study identifies the origin of such non-thermal signatures and attribute it to the fracturing of the underlying Hilbert space. rdcu.be/el8h7

Our featured article for April 2025 Critical brain hypothesis states that neuronal networks in the brain operate close to criticality. This study demonstrates the importance of the hierarchical and modular structure of neuron connections in maintaining criticality. rdcu.be/el8g6

Our featured article for April 2025: This work demonstrates a process for inducing a longlasting inscribed electric field responsible for an effective Pockels effect in amorphous silicon nitride electro-optic modulators at room temperature. rdcu.be/el8da

Yuto Ashida is our outstanding reviewer of May. Yuto is an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests span various areas of physics, including quantum many-body physics, quantum optics/information, and nonequilibrium open systems. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

You may think that an egg is stronger in their ends, but it seems that this is not entirely true, and eggs are actually tougher on their side, as demonstrated by Tal Cohen and colleagues in www.nature.com/articles/s42... @mitpress.bsky.social