Picking winners: the 10 most popular physics stories of 2024
Take a tour of the year's highlights with this list of the most-read stories published in
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Take a tour of the year's highlights with this list of the most-read stories published in
Read article: Picking winners: the 10 most popular physics stories of 2024
Margaret Harris looks back on a year of fascinating research – and ahead to the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
Read article: Quantum science and technology: highlights of 2024
Whether she’s researching quantum materials or leading her school, Nadya Mason uses her physics skills to tackle every challenge that comes her way
Read article: Ask me anything: Nadya Mason ‘I find myself looking at everything as systems of equations’
Contrasting talks by UK Space Agency chief exec Paul Bate and his deputy Chris White-Horne frame this year's Appleton Space Conference
Read article: Space agency leaders express fears and hopes for the future
Energy storage expert Venkat Srinivasan discusses the pros and cons of different battery technologies and the motivations people have for adopting them
Read article: Venkat Srinivasan: ‘Batteries are largely bipartisan’
A tongue-in-cheek e-mail exchange with 1973 Nobel Prize winner Brian Josephson shows that for some laureates, scientific rigour extends to ordinary life, too
Read article: How to rotate your mattress like a physics Nobel prizewinner
Margaret Harris reviews It’s a Gas: the Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World by Mark Miodownik
Read article: A breezy tour of what gaseous materials do for us
Mechanical energy storage could be a safer way of powering some medical devices
Read article: Twisted carbon nanotubes store more energy than lithium-ion batteries
There’s a scientific reason why Twisters is set in the US Great Plains rather than Argentina, and it has to do with the Gulf of Mexico
Read article: Why North America has a ‘tornado alley’ and South America doesn’t
Last week’s Quantum 2.0 conference laid out possible complementary approaches to the field’s biggest challenge
Read article: How to get the errors out of quantum computing