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Nobel laureate Burton Richter dies at 87

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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics hit by bullying allegations

Society now seeks to revamp its reporting policies on misconduct

Single-atom magnets show stability needed for data storage

Holmium atoms stand-up to high fields and temperatures

‘Heartbeat’ detected in drop of gallium held in a graphite corral

Oscillating liquid could be used as a timer or actuator

Research news

Rydberg excitations help make nitric oxide sensor

Pre-set bioprinting technique produces complex tissues

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Clean energy is vital – but still not enough

Nanocolloidal hydrogel scavenges heavy metals

Gels join forces with graphene quantum dots to decontaminate water

Balancing ecosystem services brings trade-offs

Modelling agricultural expansion in Amazon highlights difficulty of managing landscapes for multiple environmental goals

Cardiac hybrid imaging predicts adverse cardiac events

Cardiac hybrid imaging, which fuses SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with coronary CT angiography, increases diagnostic accuracy

Super-resolution imaging provides insight into Alzheimer’s disease

A super-resolution nanoscope can image Alzheimer's plaques at ten times the resolution of conventional microscopes

Mysterious radio signals could be from new type of neutrino

Balloon-borne detector spots unknown particles travelling up from Earth

Magnetic levitation promises to speed up tissue fabrication

Scaffold-, label-, nozzle-free technology offers rapid fabrication of complex human tissue and organs, and could even be used in space

The business of space

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Physics World podcasts

A nanotech bonanza in Paris and a journalism boot camp in Sicily

SPHERE image of the newborn planet PDS 70b

Watching planet birth, citizen science and a quantum love song

The physicists in the comedy club

In search of time crystals

Philip Ball reveals just why so many physicists are getting excited about exotic materials dubbed "time crystals"

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Newcastle’s new generation

Nick Parker and Angela Dyson outline what it takes to rebuild and reopen a physics department

Forward energy thinking on renewables and nuclear

Reports from UK’s National Infrastructure Commission and Committee on Climate Change examine energy futures

Simulating fluid dynamics in the cloud

Zenotech CEO David Standingford describes how the rise of cloud computing has created opportunities, both for his business and for the wider fluid-dynamics community

Nuclear futures

The Nuclear Energy Agency's Jim Gulliford talks about the agency's new programme to train early-career nuclear physicists

Time traders

With today's high-speed financial markets, every microsecond counts – but how do traders stay up to speed? Jon Cartwright explains

Engineering eureka: how industry engages with basic research

Executives from Airbus, Bell Labs, IBM, ID Quantique and venture-capital firm Elaia Partners share their views on basic research

Video showcase

A harbour porpoise photographed underwater

The curious case of the porpoises and the wind farm

Photo of David Smeulders from TU Eindhoven

Testing the waters in New Orleans

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Excerpts from the Red Folder

Graphene standards, offshore wind and porpoises

Physics World journalists discuss the week’s highlights

The physicists in the comedy club

The Element in the Room by Helen Arney and Steve Mould is a "turbo-charged trivia tome, aimed at scientifically minded readers with a sense of humour", says Jess Wade

Creavo launches largest ever US magnetocardiography study

UK medical device company Creavo Medical Technologies has launched a large US trial of its mobile magnetocardiography device

Newcastle’s new generation

Nick Parker and Angela Dyson outline what it takes to rebuild and reopen a physics department

Nuclear power plant blueprint. (Courtesy: iStock/Youst)

Forward energy thinking on renewables and nuclear

Reports from UK’s National Infrastructure Commission and Committee on Climate Change examine energy futures

Integrated electronics at 50 – projecting the future of the field

Fifty years on from the founding of one of the most pioneering companies in integrated electronics, we ask researchers what they think will be the most exciting developments in the...

Carbon intensity of US grid dropped by 30%

Researchers decipher US electricity generation data from last 15 years

Signal analysis increases scintillator dosimeter accuracy

Using signal analysis to remove the Cherenkov background ramps the accuracy of scintillator dosimetry for radiotherapy monitoring

In search of time crystals

Philip Ball reveals just why so many physicists are getting excited about exotic materials dubbed "time crystals"

Graphene service provides missing link for industry

A service launched at the House of Commons in Westminster, UK, provides a standard characterization of graphene to help the industry take off

Vertical launch spaceport planned for Scotland with first flights in early 2020s

Horizontal launch facility in Cornwall also gets a boost

Wet etching makes high quality topological superconductor

Samples could be used to study the quantum spin Hall effect as well as to make spintronics devices and qubits

Magnetic model simulated in 3D by D-Wave quantum processor

Transverse field Ising model run on superconducting qubits

Simulating fluid dynamics in the cloud

Zenotech CEO David Standingford describes how the rise of cloud computing has created opportunities, both for his business and for the wider fluid-dynamics community

Photo of sheep from Skyelark Ranch graze a field planted with a cover crop in Brooks, California, US. Source: Joe Proudman/UC Davis

Californian grasslands set to store carbon more reliably than forests

Wildfires release carbon stored in trees but leave grassland carbon in roots and soil

Beam’s eye MRI could guide radiotherapy

Direct acquisition of beam’s-eye-view MR images paves the way for real-time tumour tracking during radiotherapy

Hydrogen dissociation measurement puts theory at odds with experiment

Discrepancy could point to flaws in the quantum theory of molecules

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