Ultracold matter Research update Atom assembler makes defect-free arrays Ability to rearrange atoms one-by-one could be used to simulate quantum systems Read article: Atom assembler makes defect-free arrays
Magnetism and spin Research update New Ising-machine computers are taken for a spin Optics and electronics boost processing power of unconventional computers Read article: New Ising-machine computers are taken for a spin
Philosophy, sociology and religion News Flash Physics: Particle pioneers bag J J Sakurai Prize, Brian Bowsher appointed new head of STFC, colliding light waves may create magnetic monopoles Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Particle pioneers bag J J Sakurai Prize, Brian Bowsher appointed new head of STFC, colliding light waves may create magnetic monopoles
Semiconductors and electronics News Flash Physics: Designer magnets from 3D printers, creating silicon-germanium glass fibres, towards a space-based gravitational-wave observatory Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Designer magnets from 3D printers, creating silicon-germanium glass fibres, towards a space-based gravitational-wave observatory
Transport properties News Flash Physics: Enhancing iron-based superconductors, gender disparity among ESO proposals, how to make ferroelectric water Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Enhancing iron-based superconductors, gender disparity among ESO proposals, how to make ferroelectric water
Structure and dynamics News Flash Physics: MRI meets nuclear medicine, polymers mimic evolution, laser pioneer Ali Javan dies at 89 Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: MRI meets nuclear medicine, polymers mimic evolution, laser pioneer Ali Javan dies at 89
Ultrafast science News Flash Physics: Imaging single ions, UK’s merging ‘supercouncil’, OMEGA laser sets fusion record Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Imaging single ions, UK’s merging ‘supercouncil’, OMEGA laser sets fusion record
Transport properties Research update Snell’s law for spin waves measured at long last Law deviates from that governing light and could lead to "magnonic" devices of the future Read article: Snell’s law for spin waves measured at long last
Magnetism and spin Research update ‘Radiation friction’ could make huge magnetic fields with lasers Proposal for measuring poorly understood effect could boost laboratory astrophysics Read article: ‘Radiation friction’ could make huge magnetic fields with lasers
Magnetism and spin Research update Quantum simulator entangles hundreds of ions Breakthrough could lead to better atomic clocks Read article: Quantum simulator entangles hundreds of ions