Ultracold matter Research update New optical device absorbs just one photon Rydberg-atom based system could be used in quantum computers Read article: New optical device absorbs just one photon
Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: Huge Martian ice deposit, Trump sets back climate science, ultra-transparent metamaterial Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Huge Martian ice deposit, Trump sets back climate science, ultra-transparent metamaterial
Ultracold matter News Flash Physics: Spider inspires structural colour, the roundest star, quantum simulator is very fast Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Spider inspires structural colour, the roundest star, quantum simulator is very fast
Optical physics Research update Gold nanospheres confine light to smallest volume ever "World's smallest magnifying glass" uses surface plasmons Read article: Gold nanospheres confine light to smallest volume ever
Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: Space telescope passes milestone, quantum-cryptography record broken, making gold nanostructures Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Space telescope passes milestone, quantum-cryptography record broken, making gold nanostructures
Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: Thirty Meter Telescope could go to Spain, artificial muscles flex, light switches light Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Thirty Meter Telescope could go to Spain, artificial muscles flex, light switches light
Quantum optics News Flash Physics: Detector nears the quantum limit, why Saturn has rings, monolayer emits photon pairs Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Detector nears the quantum limit, why Saturn has rings, monolayer emits photon pairs
Ultrafast science News Flash Physics: 3D stars shrink when hot, new laser sensor for gases, tracking solar waves Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: 3D stars shrink when hot, new laser sensor for gases, tracking solar waves
Transport properties News Flash Physics: New radiation detectors, agreement on Cherenkov observatory and artificial intelligence Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: New radiation detectors, agreement on Cherenkov observatory and artificial intelligence
Planetary science News Flash Physics: New material for heat harvesting, how to make hairy nanorods, a comet breaks up Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: New material for heat harvesting, how to make hairy nanorods, a comet breaks up
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