Our featured article, May 2026: A flexible Bayesian framework for atomic masses by locally inferring configuration mixing. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our featured article, May 2026: Topology made visible through standing waves in a spinning fluid (@oistedu.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our featured article, May 2026: Orbital Hall effect in spin-3/2 hole-doped semiconductors and its implications for orbitronics. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our featured article, May 2026: The evolution and impact of group collaboration in crisis response. rdcu.be/flKxy

Reviewer of the Month, May 2026: Christopher Arran, a Lecturer in Ultrafast Beams and Phenomena in the Physics Department at Lancaster University, uses simulations to design and interpret experiments at high-power laser facilities, focusing on laser–plasma interactions, heat flow, strong-field QED.

Communications Physics and Nature Communications are inviting Original Research, Perspective, and Review Articles for our cross-journal Collection. The Collection is guest edited by @mithunc-softint.bsky.social, @suvendu-mandal.bsky.social and Simone Napolitano. www.nature.com/collections/...

Our featured article, April 2026: Sequential buckling in fluid-filled cylindrical shells doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our featured article, April 2026: Relativistic ⁵⁶Ni decay lines in GRB 221009A doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our featured article, April 2026: Progress and prospects in the underground laboratories' search for dark matter doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our featured article, April 2026: Spatially-resolved atmospheric turbulence sensing with two-dimensional orbital angular momentum spectroscopy doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Reviewer of the Month, April 2026: Bianka Kovács is a postdoctoral researcher at the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research in Budapest. Her research focuses on the geometry of complex networks, and her current work also applies mathematical modeling to questions in prebiotic evolution.

Our featured article, March 2026: The superconducting diode effect in Josephson junctions fabricated from a structurally chiral superconductor. rdcu.be/e9eHT

Our featured article, March 2026: The detection of marine microseismic activity with the CUORE tonne-scale cryogenic experiment. rdcu.be/e9eHC

Our featured article, March 2026: Highly efficient three-dimensional optical condensation of nano- and micro-particles using a gold-coated optical fibre module. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our featured article, March 2026: Long-range transport versus local generation in orbitronics. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Reviewer of the Month, March 2026: Shiladitya Sengupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research focuses on mechanical response of amorphous solids, physics of glass transition and dynamics of supercooled liquids.

Our featured article, February 2026: Charge transfer empties the flat band in 4Hb-TaS₂, except at the surface rdcu.be/e52gU

Our featured article, February 2026: Quantifying biases in reconstructed brain networks by @comunelab.bsky.social, @manlius.bsky.social and @valedand.bsky.social rdcu.be/e52eU

Our featured article, February 2026: Cavity-driven arbitrary in-plane focusing of phonon polaritons in hBN with deep-subwavelength confinement rdcu.be/e519V

Our featured article, February 2026: Anti-interference circularly polarized LiDAR for ocean detection

Reviewer of the Month, February 2026: Shinsuke Takasao is an Associate Professor at Musashino Art University, Japan. His research focuses on plasma astrophysics, particularly solar and stellar physics and star and planet formation, using numerical simulations on supercomputers.

We invite submissions for our collection: Odd soft matter www.nature.com/collections/...

Reviewer of the month, December 2025: Chengjie Xia is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics at East China Normal University. His research focuses on investigating granular assemblies using magnetic resonance imaging and employing statistical physics.

Our featured article, 2026: Properties of pair plasmas emerging from electromagnetic showers in matter. rdcu.be/e0Acw

Our featured article, January 2026: Distribution of antiferromagnetic rare-earth domains in multiferroic Dy₀.₇Tb₀.₃FeO₃. rdcu.be/e0Abg

Our featured article, January 2026: Observational causality by states and interaction type for scientific discovery. rdcu.be/e0z9H

Our featured article, January 2026: Coulomb-mediated single-electron heat transfer statistics across capacitively coupled silicon nanodots. rdcu.be/e0z8Y

Our featured article, November 2025: Anderson transition symmetries at the band-edge of a correlated Sn/Si monolayer rdcu.be/eTMEn

Our featured article, November 2025: High-dimensional quantum key distribution with Qubit-like states rdcu.be/eTMDp

Our featured article, November 2025: Reconfigurable and active time-reversal metasurface turns walls into sound routers rdcu.be/eTMAZ

In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (QST) 2025, this collection highlights the voices of leading women shaping the field — from academia to industry — as they share their passion, challenges, and vision for the future of QST. www.nature.com/collections/...

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