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🎉We're celebrating 30 years of exoplanets around Sun-like stars, with a Technical Review, Comment, Q&A & Editorial🌟

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Artificial gauge fields in photonics
Timescales in mechanobiology
Radiacoustic imaging
The nuclear–AI analogy
Sustainability in particle accelerators
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Nature Reviews Physics cover in the style of a vintage sci-fi paperback complete with creases at the edges, depicting an the view from a moon of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Our October Editorial: Go to talks by women ⚛️🧪

➡️ Free to read here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
"Most people — regardless of gender — are not consciously sexist. Very few would scan a conference programme and actively decide not to attend talks by women ... There’s no reason to skip a talk by a woman, yet that’s what seems to happen."
October 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Our October issue is live!🎉

🦠Bacterial colonies
💠Point defects in metal halide perovskites
⬆️⬇️Platforms for Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids
💻Tensor networks for quantum computing
✨A condmat conference w/ all female speakers
🥳50 yrs of spin glass theory
🏅Nobel Prize stories
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Nature Reviews Physics October 2025 cover, featuring an abstract floral design in autumnal colours inspired by bacterial colonies
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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In our September issue:
✨Carbon-nanomaterial-enabled THz technology
💧Structure & flow of low-dimensional water
🫗Atomistic solid–fluid surface free energy & tension
🎲Applications of certified randomness
🌀Preserving OAM in scattering media
➕Comments & Tools of the Trade
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Nature Reviews Physics September 2025 cover, showing an artist's impression of a carbon nanotube
September 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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A Friday afternoon read from our archive: AI is no substitute for having something to say (Editorial, March 2024) 🧪 ⚛️ #AcademicSky

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Quote from the article: "If you’re unconvinced, do this experiment: ask a GenAI to write an essay or an opinion piece on a certain topic. It will do so by stitching together a few more-or-less logically connected platitudes. This clichéd nothingness is unsurprising because the AI system has no agency in writing or otherwise: it simply doesn’t have ‘opinions’ or a “narrative agenda of its own”4. You might try to be more prescriptive in the prompt to push towards a certain perspective — perhaps there is such a thing as ‘the prompt’; the right way of describing the piece you had in mind so that the GenAI outputs it exactly. You have just given the AI system agency to write. But isn’t that prompt precisely the clear articulation of your idea? That’s your agency. Writing that perfect prompt is the hard part; the rest is dressing, whether you do it with or without help from GenAI."
August 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Our August issue:
🌈Topological rainbow trapping
💧Drop friction
💡Multidimensional photonic computing
🥶Quantum Mpemba effects
PLUS:
🏖️Scientists need a break too
👩‍🔬Making women visible in quantum history
🔓Open-source initiatives for quantum computing
🔨& Tools of the Trade
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Nature Reviews Physics August cover, with a box of rainbow-glazed donuts serving as an artistic representation of topological rainbow trapping
August 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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In July:
👩‍💻Physics needs research software engineers
⚡Energy consumption of quantum circuits
💫Supercomputing & exascale simulation for fusion
🖥️Shifting sands of hardware & software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations
🥪Exciton condensate in vDW layered materials
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The cover of this issue illustrates the evolution of computing systems used by physicists
July 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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World View: Art as a catalyst for promoting sustainable research ⚛️🧪

Saki the Artist shares how making art with plastic waste from @istaresearch.bsky.social helped bridge the gap between sustainability knowledge and action: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

📸: Jürgen Hofmann
Saki the Artist wearing a ball gown made of upcycled nitrile gloves. Photo: Jürgen Hofmann An elegant chandelier, which as you look more closely you realize is made of pipettes. Photo: Jürgen Hofmann
June 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Check out our June issue!
💥Neutrinos from explosive transients at the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy
🪟Yielding and plasticity in amorphous solids
✨Nonlocal metamaterials and metasurfaces
💻Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence
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The Nature Reviews Physics June 2025 cover, featuring foam on a rainbow background
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🥳Happy 150th birthday to the Metre Convention!🎂

How do you know how long a metre is?📏 Because of global cooperation to set a standard — starting from the Metre Convention in 1875

Shanay Rab & Richard Brown explain why we still need this kind of collaboration rdcu.be/emM59 ⚛️ #worldmetrologyday
"Global agreement on measurement systems, and specifically the size of the measurement units that we use today, is effective because it is universally recognized."
May 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Our May issue is out!⚛️
✨Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate
✨First-principles determination of spin–orbit coupling parameters in 2D materials
✨Photogalvanic effects in non-centrosymmetric halide perovskites
📰Editorial: Scientists are workers
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The cover of this issue illustrates spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional materials.
May 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Our April review articles:
🏜️Barren plateaus in variational quantum computing
🍩Fast ions mitigate turbulence & enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas
🕸️Network renormalization
🍃Quantum computing for nonlinear differential equations & turbulence
🐈cover: Neil Smith
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Nature Reviews Physics April 2025 cover, showing cats playing in a physics lab
April 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Our March issue is live!
🐝Mechanisms of insect respiration
🥶Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration
🤖Physics-driven learning for inverse problems in QCD
🗣️Comments on the Cold War & quantum education, and intersectionality & emergence
➕more!
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Nature Reviews Physics cover based on historical diagrams of the respiratory system of insects
March 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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If you need a break from the news, why not see how many physics-inspired details you can spot in our February cover?

Thanks again to Neil Smith for the 👻 cover illustration
A sepia-coloured drawing of a late 19th/early 20th century seance, with several physics-inspired details.
February 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Our February issue is live!

🛻Phonon-limited electronic transport through 1st principles
🛣️Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics
🖥️Benchmarking quantum computers
🌈Precision isotope-shift spectroscopy for new physics searches & nuclear insights

🤩cover by Neil Smith
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Nature Reviews Physics cover, depicting a Victorian seance with physics-inspired elements, including a prominent levitating frog
February 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Our January issue is live!

🤖Machine learning for the physics of climate
⚛️Physics of exotic nuclei
💪The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids
🛝Sliding van der Waals polytypes
🦸Hydride superconductivity is here to stay
🐈‍⬛Bringing quantum physics to new generations

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January 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM