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The power of the blackboard

Philip Ball on why we physicists still love our blackboards

Skyrmions: a twisted future in data-storage technology

Magnetic skyrmions are both physically intriguing and technologically promising, explains Kirsten von Bergmann and André Kubetzka

Photo of graduate students Shahank Gowda and Muchen Xu sitting in a small boat with an outboard motor, in a harbour with palm trees and the masts of sailing vessels visible in the background

Smooth sailing

Superhydrophobic surfaces with the right microscopic structures could help reduce friction on ships, as CJ Kim explains

An artist's drawing of a diamond overlain with a semi-transparent pattern of 1’s and 0’s. A green laser-like beam enters one side of the diamond and a red beam of 1’s and 0’s comes out the other side. An inset drawing shows a ball-and-stick model of atoms that make up the structure of diamond with NV defects. Black carbon atoms in a lattice surround a single blue nitrogen atom

The cutting edge of quantum physics

Daniel Twitchen and Matthew Markham explain how diamonds could become a quantum physicist’s best friend

A visualization of a curved space–time “sea”

Simulating the universe: solving Einstein’s equations of general relativity in a cosmological setting

Computers are now so powerful that researchers have been able to solve Einstein’s equations of general relativity in a cosmological setting, as Tom Giblin, James Mertens and Glenn Starkman reveal

Bridging the gap in nanotech

A theoretical nanoscientist examines the interface between academic research and industry

Commercializing the ‘wonder material’

Improvements in graphene processing are beginning to pay off, especially for aerospace applications

Fuel rods being loaded into a reactor core at a nuclear power station

Maintaining high standards: the importance of materials-science research to the nuclear industry

Karl Whittle, Mahmoud Mostafavi and Philip D Edmondson explore the materials-science challenges involved in monitoring nuclear reactor components

Photo of the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility. The photo is mostly in black-and-white, with the chamber showing up as a bright blue sphere at the centre of the photo. The chamber is surrounded by laser beamlines, which are long metal boxes that enclose the laser beam and optics. The photo also shows metal access stairs and catwalks, and metal structures supporting the beamlines and instrumentation

The long road to ignition

Margaret Harris reports on progress towards fusion’s “break-even” point at the US National Ignition Facility

The geometry of our world: M-theory and 11D geometry

Jason Lotay looks at the power of geometry to bring us a step closer to an elusive unified theory of physics

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The power of the blackboard

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The cutting edge of quantum physics

Simulating the universe: solving Einstein’s equations of general relativity in a cosmological setting

Bridging the gap in nanotech

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Maintaining high standards: the importance of materials-science research to the nuclear industry

The long road to ignition

The geometry of our world: M-theory and 11D geometry

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