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Nature Reviews Physics cover, artistically depicting quantum batteries as a glowing battery in a tangle of string reminiscent of the symbol for an atom, being played with by a black cat

In our February issue:
✨Superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates
🤔The Yang–Mills Millennium problem
📊Global tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data
🔋Opportunities & challenges of quantum batteries

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Inside the International Asteroid Warning Network - Nature Reviews Physics Kelly Fast, Acting Planetary Defense Officer for NASA, describes the global network working to detect and assess asteroids that could potentially threaten Earth.

Kelly Fast, Acting Planetary Defense Officer for NASA, speaks with Nature Reviews Physics about the global network working to detect and assess asteroids that could potentially threaten Earth. ⚛️ 🔭 🧪

Great job, great journal, great team - I wholeheartedly encourage anyone interested to apply!

Preferential play - Nature Physics Nature Physics - Preferential play

I wrote a research highlight on a paper in @physreve.bsky.social that uses statistical physics to analyse football matches. ⚛️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

And 🥁 the final program of the *"Image Science" Gordon Research Conference*, to take place in Italy April 26-May 1st, is out!
Please take some time to check the program, apply, *share* with your colleagues.
www.grc.org/image-scienc... (1/N)

The National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) and Google Quantum AI have announced a new initiative to expand UK researchers’ access to Google’s Willow quantum processor - marking an exciting step forward for the UK’s quantum ecosystem!

Learn more and apply here: www.nqcc.ac.uk/nqcc-and-goo...

How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare - Nature Reviews Physics 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.

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. 🔒

Which one is you favourite @natrevphys.nature.com
cover of 2025?

Help us decide the prettiest cover of them all because we really can't. Comment with your preference on the post shared below, and maybe tell us why. ⚛️

How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare - Nature Reviews Physics 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 str...

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...

Our special November issue, celebrating 30 years of exoplanets, is now here! https://bit.ly/483MH9I
#astronomy #exoplanets

Some good advice here for conference talks.

I would also like to put in a plug for please making your colloquium talks accessible to upper level undergrads. 🎢 ⚛️

@plasmonica.bsky.social is organizing a summer school on "Plasmonic and Nano-optics" (march 23-27 in Florence, Italy), with a bunch of amazing lecturers and speakers, plus me.

Come and join us!
www.plasmonica.it/2026school/

And what twenty years it has been! I'm proud to have been part of the journey for a little while. Here's to another twenty, but I hope you take some time to celebrate first, @natphys.nature.com 🎂🥳🥂

Ammonia as a renewable energy carrier from synthesis to utilization - Nature Reviews Clean Technology Ammonia can store and transport renewable energy for large-scale and long-term use. This Review discusses its synthesis under mild conditions through metal-mediated electrochemical, direct plasma-catalytic and tandem plasma-electrocatalytic processes, along with economic considerations and utilization in hydrogen production and fuel cells.

This new Review explores how ammonia could be used as an energy carrier for the decarbonisation of transport and power generation, examining technology required cleanly produce and use ammonia

Vacancy — PhD Positions in Astronomy and Astrophysics Are you passionate about astronomy and cutting-edge research?Join our dynamic team and explore the universe through multiple PhD positions now open! Work on a range of exciting research topics in a co...

Our annual PhD recruitment process @api.uva.nl is open!! Details of the process and projects are here, deadline November 3! 🔭 #astronomy #astrophysics

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 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 ...

The @natureportfolio.nature.com Collection celebrating the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics is now live!

Morpho-Enhanced Polarization Microscopy - Nature Reviews Physics The wings of the Blue Morpho butterfly are natural photonic structures. Saaj Chattopadhyay explains how they can serve as simple and affordable interfaces to increase the colour and birefringent contrast in polarization microscopy.

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

Community-specific guidance for environmental sustainability in particle accelerators - Nature Reviews Physics Particle accelerators are large-scale, complex projects, and they have some unique challenges when it comes to environmental sustainability. A group of particle accelerator researchers and environmental sustainability experts shares how community-specific guidance can help address these needs.

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...

Laser-driven ultrafast transmission electron microscopy - Nature Reviews Methods Primers Laser-driven ultrafast tranmission electron microscopy (UTEM) approaches such as stroboscopic UTEM enable the study of ultrafast reversible processes at time resolutions at the femtosecond scale and beyond. This Primer focuses on stroboscopic UTEM, describing its experimental set-up and variants, and covers the various applications of this technique in condensed matter physics, including imaging structural dynamics, photo-induced near-field electron microscopy, attosecond-scale imaging, dark-field imaging and beyond.

A new #Primer this week covers #ultrafast #TEM - a technique that femtosecond resolution of coherent phenomena in #quantum materials. ⚡⏩ Check out it's variety of setups and applications here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🚨Registrations are open for the upcoming "Image Science" Gordon research conference , to take place in Italy, April 26-May 1, 2026. Check out the amazing program, tell your friends and share, APPLY! 🚨
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I need some help 🙂

I am working on a piece about women in STEM, either consciously or not, code switching. Not just in communication, but in appearance, mannerism, etc.

Have you? How? Maybe you don’t anymore, but what are some things you did early career or see others doing?

#womeninstem

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Nanotechnology Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Nanotechnology Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: New York or Madrid Application Deadline: October 12th, 2025 About Springer Nature Springer Nature ...

We are seeking an Associate or Senior Editor to join the Nature Nanotechnology team within Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com

Closing Date: October 12th, 2025 - Candidates will be considered as they apply.

For more details👇
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Radiacoustic imaging - Nature Reviews Physics Radiacoustic imaging uses ultrasound waves generated by radiation energy deposition for imaging contrast. This Perspective highlights advances, mechanisms, and biomedical and materials science applica...

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...

#DisabledInSTEM

Nature Reviews Physics September 2025 cover, showing an artist's impression of a carbon nanotube

In our September issue:
✨Carbon-nanomaterial-enabled THz technology
💧Structure & flow of low-dimensional water
🫗Atomistic solid–fluid surface free energy & tension
🎲Applications of certified randomness
🌀Preserving OAM in scattering media
➕Comments & Tools of the Trade
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Last chance to apply! Closing date is the 28th!

One week left to apply!

The Chinese University of Hong Kong is accepting applications for up to two Research Assistant Professor positions in the fields of experimental quantum optics, experimental quantum sensing, and theoretical quantum physics. ow.ly/iJJs50WBBZM #PhysicsCareers #PhysicsJobs