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Physics World January 2025

Physics World January 2025

Return to Helgoland: celebrating 100 years of quantum mechanics

To kick off the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), Robert P Crease talks to some of the physicists attending the Helgoland 2025 conference, which is being held on the island where Werner Heisenberg developed quantum mechanics exactly a century ago. Also to mark IYQ, Oksana Kondratyeva explains how she’s worked with US firm Rigetti Computing to create a piece of stained glass art inspired by its quantum computers. Meanwhile, Michael Allen looks at the impact of clouds on climate change and Robert Phillips explains how you can pick up entrepreneurship skills that may be vital for career success.

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Black and white photo of a woman in an art studio; and colour photo of a round stained glass artwork feature

Glass art in the age of quantum tech

Sunset on the island of Helgoland feature

Return to Helgoland

Satellite view of stratocumulus clouds feature

Cloudy with a chance of warming

Oxford Ionics opinion

Business marvels

cartoon illustration of people, money and ideas news

Deep tech missing out on £4.5bn

map of African continent in gold foil news

Africa targets 2035 start date for synchrotron construction

University students in a lecture theatre opinion

Students must not fund academia

Old wood and mercury thermometer with a scale hand drawn along its length review

Setting the scale: the life and work of Anders Celsius

Progress Pride flag flying outside opinion

Bringing pride to physics

Multiracial group of female students using wireless technology in university classroom careers

From blackboard to the boardroom

research update

Nuclear shape transitions visualized for the first time

smartphone ionosphere map research update

Smartphones monitor Earth’s ever-changing ionosphere

RHIC collisions research update

Nuclear shapes revealed in high-energy collisions

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