An antiferromagnetic manganese–tin nanodot has been switched using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns. It could be useful for making high-density, low power magnetic memories. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/swLx50X4k9h

Could you turn the world's slowest experiment, where a drop of pitch takes 10 years to fall, into a schools outreach project? Find out how physicists at Trinity College Dublin got on when they tried to do just that. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/how-the-sl...

With the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology in its final straight, book your place now at the showpiece IOP event at the historic Royal Institution in central London on 4-5 November. Don't miss out! ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/be-a-part-...

A curious quantum phenomenon called the Schwinger effect could soon be simulated in the lab, say physicists in Canada. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/NyVT50X2ayw

Even very small changes in the size and shape of a meniscus can dramatically affect how much wave energy passes through this interface between water and a solid surface. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zY9u50X28yg

Researchers in China say that they are the first to use cosmic-ray muography to monitor the region surrounding a tunnel. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/l6hf50X1C27

Keith Cooper is our guest in this podcast and our conversation ranges from the amazing science of “hot Jupiters” to how the plot of a popular Star Trek episode could inform our understanding of life on distant exoplanets. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/tNao50X24ig

A robotic backpack, known as GyroPack, uses gyroscopic technology to improve balance for people with the movement disorder ataxia. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/gyroscopic...

Researchers determine that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an excited atomic state while passing through a cloud of atoms - a finding with potential applications in studies of light-matter interactions and quantum sensing. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/negative-t...

Wave-particle duality has been harnessed in an imaging process. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/CX9t50X0J5Q

A diamond-based magnetic sensor designed to detect cancer metastases is small enough for use in endoscopy and keyhole surgery. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/compact-di...

“My big worry is that all this digital stuff won’t be there when we would like it to be there, or when our descendants would like to have it,” says Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/s5qp50X00go

An unconventional approach to solving the dark energy problem called the cosmologically coupled black hole (CCBH) hypothesis appears to be compatible with the observed masses of neutrinos. 🧪⚛️https://physicsworld.com/a/unconventional-approach-to-dark-energy-problem-gives-observed-neutrino-masses/

An important step has been taken towards bridging the divide between quantum and classical physics. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/r23s50WZh5l

Adding energy to a system usually heats it up, but physicists in Austria have now discovered a scenario in which this is not the case. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/quantum-ga...

An optically addressable qubit encoded in a fluorescent protein could be used as a sensor to measure quantum properties inside living systems. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/protein-qu...

A recent survey done by IOP Publishing reveals that physicists who do peer review are polarized regarding whether AI should be used in the process. We discuss the results in this podcast with IOPP's Laura Feetham-Walker. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/vwkV50WYGui

“Imagine the day the aliens arrive.” So begins Do Aliens Speak Physics? by the US particle physicist Daniel Whiteson and the cartoonist and author Andy Warner. They ask if we could communicate with aliens, and ask whether we would be able to understand alien science? ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/XeUF50WYEKS

David Silver of Google DeepMind thinks AIs that ‘learn by experience’ are the future of AI – but maybe not in particle colliders or nuclear arsenals. #HLF2025 ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/the-pros-a...

Are we heading for a world in which superhuman AI mathematicians define questions, construct proofs, check them, and then write+peer review the paper about them afterwards? Many mathematicians seem to think so, and some are happier about it than others. ⚛️🧪 #HLF2025 physicsworld.com/a/are-we-hea...

The first-ever “space–time crystal” has been created in the US. The system is patterned in both space and time and comprises a rigid lattice of topological solitons that are sustained by steady oscillations in the orientations of liquid crystal molecules. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/9IGT50WXyFg

Observation of a new type of exotic vortex pattern called an eccentric fractional skyrmion helps to advance our understanding of complex topological quantum systems. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/quantum-fl...

It was on 14 September 2015, exactly 10 years ago, when gravitational waves created from the collision of 2 black holes 1.3 billion light-years away hit the LIGO detectors in the US. But could the the Einstein Telescope usher in a new age for gravitational waves?🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/celebratin...

Evidence for a quasi-bound state of a top quark and an antitop quark has been found by the CMS experiment at CERN. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/UY4N50WWVMv

To understand the recent unrest in the volcano on Vulcano, researchers have created a 3D model of its interior, using a combination of nodal seismic networks and AI. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/researcher...

A multifocus microscope combines diffractive optics with 25 tiny cameras to simultaneously image rapid biological processes at multiple depths - including the natural swimming motion of entire C. elegans worms. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/high-speed...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Scott Bolton, who is principal investigator on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter. He explains how Juno is revolutionizing our understanding of the gas giant. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/juno-the-s...

Combining static proton arcs with shoot-through proton beams improves plan quality and reduces delivery times in upright proton therapy, with potential to make proton treatments more affordable and accessible. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/optimizing...

10 years after the first detection of gravitational waves, physicists in Europe are looking forward with the Einstein Telescope. But where will it be build? And in what form? @physicsworld.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/physicists...

A machine learning-based approach that could help astronomers detect lower-frequency gravitational waves has been unveiled. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/ZlOU50WUKQ4

In the fourth of our series of truly weird quantum effects we look at the bizarre situation in which the causal order of events are in a quantum superposition. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zLrQ50WTWmj

The performance of standard optical fibres has barely improved in 40 years, but physicists at Microsoft and @unisouthampton.bsky.social have developed an alternative hollow-core fibre that exhibits 35% less attenuation while transmitting signals 45% faster. 🧪⚛️💡 physicsworld.com/a/new-hollow...

Einstein's general relativity and classical Newtonian physics - not so different after all? Researchers @caltech.edu develop equations to explore gravity & black hole physics inspired by Maxwell's equations for light physicsworld.com/a/reformulat... @physicsworld.bsky.social #relativity #blackhole

Errors in some of this year’s UK A-level physics exam papers could leave students without good enough grades to study physics at university 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/errors-in-...

In classical physics, atoms at absolute zero do not move. In quantum mechanics, however, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle for position & momentum means they do, a little. Physicists in Germany have now measured this zero-point motion directly for the first time. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/zero-point...

Physicists in China used diamond-based #quantum sensors to uncover what they say is the first unambiguous experimental evidence for the Meissner effect – a hallmark of superconductivity – in bilayer nickelate materials at high pressures. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/quantum-se...

Can artificial intelligence predict future research directions in quantum science? Listen to this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast to discover what is already possible. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/SMZ150WRg5F

Physicists might not think of the UK’s intelligence and security agency – GCHQ – as somewhere they might consider for a job. But plenty of physicists do work there -- including the deputy director for science and its leader of quantum tech. Click below for more. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/from-rewar...

A new ultrabroadband system uses the same laser and resonator to process signals at frequencies ranging from <1 GHz up to >100 GHz. It's based on a thin-film lithium niobate resonator and it could facilitate developments such as remote robotic surgery. 🧪⚛️💡 physicsworld.com/a/broadband-...

Researchers demonstrate the first treatment of an animal tumour using radioactive carbon ion beams. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/r6Lj50WP2Kx

Micron-sized dust particles in the atmosphere appear to trigger the formation of ice in certain "mixed phase" types of clouds. As well as improving climate models, this finding could advance studies of cloud seeding for geoengineering. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/desert-dus...

The first nobelium-containing molecules ever made + directly identified could herald a shake-up at the bottom of the periodic table as scientists reassess the physical phenomena that give heavy and superheavy elements their chemical properties. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/making-mol...

Procceed with caution: AI is useful but we need to tread carefully. FInd out why from Honor Powrie in the latest Transactions column in Physics World. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/garbage-in...

Researchers in Japan have combined AI with data mining methods to develop an ultra-sticky hydrogel material suitable for very wet environments. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/super-stic...

The new episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features physicist-turned-journalist Jason Palmer, who co-hosts “The Intelligence” podcast at The Economist. Palmer has tips for those who fancy the same career path and discusses how AI is changing journalism. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/from-a-las...

A new version of the double-slit experiment uses two single atoms as the slits. The photon’s path can be inferred by measuring subtle changes in the atoms’ properties after they scatter photons. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/famous-dou...

Researchers at Jagiellonian University have designed a unique PET scanner that enables positronium imaging. And now they are developing a total-body quantum PET scanner that images quantum entanglement of annihilation photons. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/towards-qu...

Quantum physics is full of scientific and philosophical mysteries, but the answers could emerge from the field’s commercial applications. Elise Crull (a philosopher), Artur Ekert (an academic) & Stephanie Simmons (an industrialist) examine the issues at stake. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/why-quantu...

For the International Year of Quantum Science & Technology, we chatted with quantum pioneer + Nobel laureate Bill Phillips on the proudest moments in his career, the need for an "immortal qubit" and just why it is that the quantum world is so "deliciously weird." ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/william-ph...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a low-cost imaging technology used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, also shows potential as a diagnostic tool for assessing rapid hearing loss. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/optical-im...