Transport properties Research update Proteins boost quantum coherence in bacteria Study sheds new light on photosynthesis Read article: Proteins boost quantum coherence in bacteria
Surfaces and interfaces Research update Somersaulting film generates electricity Energy is harvested from water vapour Read article: Somersaulting film generates electricity
Cosmology Research update Physicist homes in on universe’s earliest magnetic fields How primordial magnetism arose out of nothing Read article: Physicist homes in on universe’s earliest magnetic fields
Structure and dynamics Research update Muon-capture measurement backs QCD prediction Complex calculations pass experimental test Read article: Muon-capture measurement backs QCD prediction
Quantum optics Research update ‘Boson sampling’ offers shortcut to quantum computing Optical device could outstrip classical computers Read article: ‘Boson sampling’ offers shortcut to quantum computing
Transport properties Research update Heat flows ‘backwards’ across Josephson junction Physicists confirm 1965 prediction of thermal effect Read article: Heat flows ‘backwards’ across Josephson junction
Stars and solar physics Research update Carbon’s Hoyle state calculated at long last Supercomputer simulates "bent state" crucial for nucleosynthesis Read article: Carbon’s Hoyle state calculated at long last
Planetary science Research update Thorium could help alien life emerge Surfeit of radioactivity could warm exoplanets Read article: Thorium could help alien life emerge
Particles and interactions Research update Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2012 ATLAS and CMS take top gong for Higgs-like discovery Read article: Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2012
Structure and dynamics Research update Mesons measure collision temperatures Quark–gluon plasma probed at CMS Read article: Mesons measure collision temperatures
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