Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: Superfluid helium dark-matter detector, Hinkley C will go ahead, why nanotubes are different
Illuminated polymer tubes could replace pumps in labs-on-a-chip
Read article: Light pushes liquid uphill
Mystified by modernist cuisine? Margaret Harris reviews a book that takes culinary physics "out of the lab and into your kitchen"
Read article: A physical feast
Simulations reveal the importance of van der Waals interactions
Read article: Neural networks provide deep insights into the mysteries of water
Hydrogen atoms smear out into rings when water is confined in tiny channels
Read article: Physicists discover new state of the water molecule
Analysis identifies how particles separate according to size
Read article: Physicists upend conventional wisdom of how paint dries
Study verifies mechanical explanation for how the human brain folds
Read article: Physics of brain folding recreated in the lab
From bursting balloons and fossils under a laser to visions of Pluto and gravitationally lensed supernovae
Read article: Our favourite pictures of 2015
Internal fibres co-ordinate flagella, not fluid forces, say biophysicists
Read article: Algae ‘breaststroke’ is synchronized from within
Gérard Liger-Belair reveals the hidden science of the world’s top sparkling wine
Read article: Six secrets of champagne
