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Graphics of 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics winners: Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland win the Nobel Prize for Physics

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**Happy 30th birthday Physics World!**

Explore the past, present and future of physics with the bumper 112-page 30th-anniversary issue of Physics World magazine

CERN describes physicist’s gender talk as ‘highly offensive’

Alessandro Strumia claimed “physics invented and built by men”

Cool polymer paint saves on air conditioning

A polymer coating with trapped nano and micro-sized air voids approaches the theoretical limits for passive cooling

Research news

Nanosilicates deliver angiogenesis therapies

US national parks warming twice as fast as rest of country

Deep learning improves fibre optic imaging

Non-invasive NIR imaging tracks brain shrinkage

Time-resolved near-infrared imaging can track brain atrophy arising from neurodegenerative diseases

Spray-on antennas for the Internet of Things

Devices are made of 2D titanium carbide and could make any object connected

Maxwell model optimizes motion energy harvesters

Using a model for triboelectric nanogenerators based on the Maxwell equations, researchers identify designs and conditions that optimize performance

Hotter planet faces more killer heat

The Earth can expect more killer heat, from lethal heat waves and more intense temperatures claiming more lives. Wildfires, too, will become more polluting.

Personalized UV sensors monitor sun exposure

A wearable UV sensor helps individuals with different skin types manage vitamin absorption and avoid sun damage

Memristive metal-organic films made easy

New one-pot technique produces ultrathin, strong and transparent nanofilms for flexible electronics applications

Revolutions in computing

Scientists are exploiting the continuing advances in computing power to explore and understand ever more complex systems. From advanced computer models that can probe the properties of many different physical systems, to machine learning to quantum computing, check out our special collection.

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IBM innovations, Mississippi model and Nobel Prize preview

Flexible X-ray detector, revolutions in computing, hurricane flooding, quantum noise goes to work

Communicating science at music festivals

Explore in depth

Photo of the QUASAR motion phantom from Modus QA

4D phantom eases route to adaptive MR-guided radiotherapy

Once a physicist: Noel Bakhtian

Noel Bakhtian is director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies and a member of the senior leadership team at the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory

A dial labelled "Brexit" with the needle resting midway between positive and negative

Exploring innovation, from taxis to data centres

A trip to IBM's Hursley Park labs yields some unexpected insights

Energy storage technologies vie for investment

Ideas abound for alternative energy storage technologies, but investment remains key for real-world change

My years in China

Richard de Grijs on the highs and lows of living in China

Your pathway to a future in nuclear science

Whether you are a recent graduate or an industry professional seeking to broaden your skills, the Nuclear Technology Education Consortium's novel nuclear courses have you covered

Smartphone apps shake up earthquake early-warning systems

Lucina Melesio examines how companies in Mexico are developing earthquake early-warning smartphone apps to help save lives

Ingenious inventions

Tushna Commissariat reviews Audrey the Inventor, written by Rachel Valentine and illustrated by Katie Weymouth

Video showcase

Animation of 19 September 2017 earthquake in Central Mexico

19 September 2017 Central Mexico earthquake examined

Water
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Modelling the Mississippi

What is a quantum simulation?

Latest articles

Researchers at Drexel spray on MXene antennas

2D materials – from fab to fabricated with ease

Recent reports tackle fabrication barriers for 2D materials and thin films

Triumphs and frustrations

There have been major breakthroughs in the last 30 years, but the Standard Model of particle physics is still standing strong, as Christine Sutton explains

Nobel prize predictions: invisibility cloaks, slow light and quantum phases

Excerpts from the Red Folder

**Explore your options with the Physics World Careers guide**

Our annual, free-to-read guide can help you pick from a diverse range of jobs following a degree in physics

Quantum
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US invests $249m in quantum information science as White House unveils strategic overview

Over 100 research projects will benefit from funding

Physicists who move abroad can receive a 17% uplift in citations, study reveals

Your papers could get up to 100 additional citations in five years if you move abroad than if you stay at home

AI algorithm produces synthetic brain MR images

An artificial intelligence algorithm produces synthetic brain MR images, solving one of the big challenges in training AI algorithms

Schrödinger’s cat as you’ve never seen it before

A special comic created by Eugenia Viti and Ivan Viti

Composite image illustrating climate change

US, India and Saudi Arabia could be biggest climate losers

Study assesses social cost of carbon country by country

Exploring innovation, from taxis to data centres

A trip to IBM's Hursley Park labs yields some unexpected insights

Shape-shifting red blood cells respond to shear forces

Microfluidic study could lead to better diagnoses of malaria and sickle cell anaemia

Collective electron excitations break down quantum Hall effect in graphene

New measurements will not only be important for fundamental physics but also for applying the effect as a resistance standard for redefining the kilogram

Photonic crystal contact lenses allow controlled and monitored drug release. Credit: J Deng

Colour-changing contact lenses could improve drug delivery

Self-reporting contact lenses with specific binding sites offer the potential for better treatment of eye disease

A promising new vaccine against melanoma

Adding an adjuvant to an anti-cancer vaccine yielded 100% survival in mice with melanoma

Once a physicist: Noel Bakhtian

Noel Bakhtian is director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies and a member of the senior leadership team at the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory

Composite image of solar farm, wind turbines, pylon

Specialists gather at World Renewable Energy Congress

Big hitters included David Renné, president of the International Solar Energy Society, and Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes, vice-president, European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF)....

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Video guide to Physics World Careers 2018

Academia, industry, dance – we have you covered

Superconducting and diamond qubits get a boost

Independent studies could lead to practical quantum computers

The business of space

Explore the latest trends and commercial opportunities associated with designing, building, launching and exploiting space-based technologies

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New webinar this week

Machine learning and automation in radiation oncology
During the first part of the webinar, Fredrik Löfman, head of machine learning at RaySearch, will discuss how RaySearch is pioneering machine learning for smarter and faster oncology software.

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The 10th International Workshop on Nanoscale Spectroscopy and Nanotechnology – NSS10

10—13 September 2018, Oxford, UK
NSS10 bringing together experts to discuss and share the information on latest research advances of science and technology in the nanoscale regime including (but not limited to) electronic, optical, magnetic, mechanical and transport properties of nanoscale systems and nanoscale devices, as well as characterisation tools to study them. It will additionally focus on low dimensional materials, catalysis, energy materials, topological materials and their practical applications.

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