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Physics World July 2025

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Physics World July 2025

Medical marvels: five ways quantum physics is boosting healthcare

As the world celebrates the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, Matt Jones looks at how quantum physics is set to have a huge impact on medicine and healthcare. Quantum sensors, in particular, can help us to study the human body and improve medical diagnosis, with several systems close to being commercialized. Also on the medical theme, Nick Stone discusses the use of optics in healthcare. Finally, find out whether “biomass burial” could tackle climate change and hear how musical “earworms” can help pupils learn physics.

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Da Vinci's Vitruvian man with an abstract tech background feature

Quantum sensing for healthcare

Images of equipmant for screening a truck and a human opinion

Machine healthcare

Nick Stone and Tami Freeman on stage at the Celebration of Physics interview

Harnessing the power of light

stack of waste wood stored at the edge of woodland and fields feature

Bury it, don’t burn it

news

US astronomy facing ‘extinction level’ event following Trump’s 2026 budget request

Photo of the BASE-STEP system being transported by overhead crane through the experimental hall of the Antimatter Factory at CERN. The system is an irregularly-shaped gray box and it's suspended from a large, bright yellow crane below the hall ceiling. A hard-hatted physicist, Marcel Leonhardt, looks on while holding a tablet displaying a dashboard of parameters. research update

CERN takes protons on lorry ride

Illustration of a hand crushing a dollar sign opinion

How I was terminated

Pile of unfinished paperwork on an academic's desk opinion

For science or for profit?

Geological map of the lunar surface, showing the Kepler crater review

Moonstruck

Robot and woman face to face review

Lost in the mirror?

Felicity Inkpen artwork

Painting the unseen: visualizing the quantum world

illustration of an astronomical explosion review

Beyond the Big Bang

illustration of musical notes floating around a notebook and pencil lateral thoughts

Worming physics into your head

Comic depicting a parachutist whose chute is on fire and their thought process about not using their backup chute review

No laughing matter

careers

Beyond the classroom: a high-school student’s week at the Institute of Physics

Artist's impression of seven exoplanets lined up under a stave of music review

Harmonious connections

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