Community perspective report from the Institute of Physics examines ways to overcome the barriers to translating physics research into the medical market
Read article: Report highlights challenges and opportunities for UK medical physics
Almost 1400 people have signed an open letter calling on the international community to “defend academic life”
Read article: Researchers express ‘grave concern’ over attacks on Iranian institutions and science
The work involved mapping more than 47 million galaxies and quasars over a five-year period
Read article: Dark energy survey unveils the largest 3D map of the universe
Milestone marks the start of the second-stage of India’s nuclear programme
Read article: India’s first fast-breeder nuclear reactor achieves criticality
JINR maintains links with almost 700 research centres and universities in 60 countries
Read article: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ‘deeply embedded’ in Russia’s military efforts, states report
Combining the industry’s most compact cyclotron with an upright positioning system creates a proton therapy system small enough to fit into a linac vault
Read article: Stanford Medicine unveils world’s first ultracompact proton therapy facility
Devices could help miniaturize laser-based technologies
Read article: Tantala 3D integrated circuits deliver a rainbow of laser light
Researchers stretch the limits of how far artificial intelligence can contribute to scientific discovery
Read article: Meta-design: language models generate novel quantum experiments
X-ray experiments provide further evidence that water exists in two distinct phases
Read article: Scientists find a new critical point in supercooled water
Hafnium-oxide based nanomaterial mimics the mechanisms of the human brain
Read article: Memristive synapses could reduce AI energy consumption
Architectures could support quantum-chemistry simulations
Read article: Collisional quantum gates created using fermionic atoms
Concept from theoretical physics could reduce qubit requirements
Read article: Gauge theory could give quantum error correction a boost
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Read article: STEM stock rising in quantitative finance
An excerpt from art historian and author Lynn Gamwell’s book Conjuring the Void: the Art of Black Holes
Read article: Lure of the black hole: from science to art
Matin Durrani talks to Dave Robertson, a politician who used to be a physics teacher
Read article: From the blackboard to the backbenches: how physics teacher Dave Robertson became an MP
Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk about the danger of space debris and what we need to do about it
Read article: A rubbish challenge: how do we dump space junk?
Early-career physicist Natasha Khan talks about her journey to becoming a nuclear safety engineer
Read article: A physicist’s journey into nuclear energy
Robert P Crease talks to Mulugeta Bekele, who almost single-handedly kept Ethiopian physics going
Read article: Mulugeta Bekele: the jailed and tortured scientist who kept Ethiopian physics alive
Mechanical wear thought to be behind the shape of tips, rather than an evolutionary mechanism
Read article: Study reveals the physics behind nature’s pointed tips
Victoria Merriman reports back from a Global Physics Summit satellite event in Dschang, Cameroon
Read article: Shining a light on central African physics
New book provides an essential guide to the science, regulatory landscape and real world practice of radiological protection
Read article: Science and standards: a comprehensive guide to radiological protection
Chris Sinclair talks to Michael Frayn about a new revival of his classic science play Copenhagen
Read article: Michael Frayn on Copenhagen: ‘When I wrote it, I didn’t think it would even be staged’
A personal reflection on the Global Physics Summit – from artificial intelligence to ultracold atoms
Read article: Many-body effects at the world’s largest physics conference
Little evidence of radionuclide accumulation in vessel's surrounding environment
Read article: Sunken nuclear submarine is leaking radioactive material intermittently
Back-to-back events focusing on different forms of nuclear energy reveal sharp differences in mood as well as language taboos, as Margaret Harris reports
Read article: The dirtiest words in fusion and fission
PET scans that simultaneously image more than one radiotracer could revolutionize oncology
Read article: Multiplexed PET paves the way towards biologically individualized radiotherapy
All-in-one QA platform provides an independent, interpretable alternative to vendor black-box QA
Read article: Daily QA 4 Pro redefines machine quality assurance for next-generation radiotherapy
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