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Physicist John Hill takes the helm at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Hill will manage the lab’s $900m annual budget

Nottingham physics redundancies ‘an act of academic sabotage’, warn scientists

University plans to cut almost 30% staff in the physics department

Officials hail ‘major milestone’ for US Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

When complete in 2031, DUNE-LBNF will study the properties of neutrinos

Report highlights challenges and opportunities for UK medical physics

Community perspective report from the Institute of Physics examines ways to overcome the barriers to translating physics research into the medical market

Medical physicists examine MRI brain scan

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Researchers express ‘grave concern’ over attacks on Iranian institutions and science

Almost 1400 people have signed an open letter calling on the international community to “defend academic life”

damage at Isfahan University of Technology

Dark energy survey unveils the largest 3D map of the universe

The work involved mapping more than 47 million galaxies and quasars over a five-year period

Research updates

Photonic glasses deliver angle-independent structural colour, including reds

Gold nanoparticles absorb blue light

Bird motifs coloured using the new photonic glass

Physicists create mechanical memory device from slap-bracelet-like structures

Placing the structures on a variably spinning turntable creates a scalable way of addressing single bits of memory

A still from a video showing six flexible strips of material on a wheel. When the wheel spins, the strips of material snap into left-bent or right-bent configurations depending on the dynamics of the spin.

Molecular spin sensor takes the temperature of cancer cells

New class of biocompatible quantum nanosensor unveiled in Japan

Radar identifies insect species via reflections from wingbeats

A new technique that combines millimetre-wave radar with machine learning holds promise for scalable and sustainable monitoring of insect biodiversity

First author Linta Antony collecting insects

Tiny droplets of primordial soup appear in oxygen collisions

Quark–gluon plasma could be created by light nuclei

Muon g−2 calculation sets precision record and backs the Standard Model

Lattice QCD puts new physics to rest

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What physicists can do to support the green economy

Matin Durrani summarizes a debate at the Institute of Physics on the future of green energy

A range of green energy sources: solar, wind, nuclear, green batteries, hydroelectricity and carbon capture.

From equations to nuclear medicine: Keamogetswe Ramonaheng on building medical physics in Africa

Keamogetswe Ramonaheng discusses her life in medical physics

Building up the quantum workforce: an undergraduate route into industry

Colorado School of Mines’ Frédéric Sarazin on a new undergraduate route into quantum engineering

Three people in a lab handling a quantum refrigeration device

One giant leap: Artemis II returns humanity to the Moon

Artemis II has returned humanity to the Moon, gripping the whole world. Keith Cooper follows the mission’s journey and looks at what comes next for humans in space

Orion module in foreground with the Moon behind and then in the far distance a crescent of Earth

Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew

With climate change impacting the world’s coffee supplies, can physics help you reduce waste by brewing smarter? Michael Allen investigates

Coffee pouring out of an espresso machine into a small white cup

Trading places: meet the physicists-turned-analysts who are driving the frontiers of finance

From academia to algorithms, physicists in quantitative finance explain how their careers evolved

Double exposure image featuring financial charts and graphs superimposed over a keyboard background

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Striking mathematical pattern uncovered in Chinese money plant leaves

The team says it is the first demonstration of 'Voronoi patterns' in plants

two images of a chinese money plant leaf

Final look inside the Cavendish lab’s 50-year home before demolition

Mićo Tatalović vists the former site of Cambridge University’s physics department before it is demolished

Tiny knotted fibre leaps into the air like a springtail bug

The fibre robot could find applications in agriculture and reforestation

researcher holding a tiny knotted robot with tweezers

The Physics World 2026 Particle and Nuclear Briefing is out now

Find out more about plans for the next major particle collider as well as careers in the nuclear industry

Study reveals the physics behind nature’s pointed tips

Mechanical wear thought to be behind the shape of tips, rather than an evolutionary mechanism

Shining a light on central African physics

Victoria Merriman reports back from a Global Physics Summit satellite event in Dschang, Cameroon

Participants at the Global Physics Summit satellite event in Cameroon, April 2026

Analysis

AI-led solutions of Erdős problems spark debate over the future of mathematics

Problems that defeated human mathematicians for decades are now solved, but for whose benefit?

New findings shorten the road to cryptographically relevant quantum computers

Two recent papers suggest that quantum computers may crack modern cryptography sooner than expected

An outline of a key traced in white against a blue background decorated with thin columns of tiny letters and number.

ESTRO debate reveals rising confidence in upright proton therapy

A lively debate at the ESTRO 2026 meeting concluded with nearly 70% of the audience backing upright proton therapy as a mainstream treatment option by 2035

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