The search for physics beyond the standard model usually requires vast accelerators and huge amounts of investment in expertise to operate them and analyse the results - now it is possible with just a few lasers and a photon detector. philosophicalmagazine.com/news/high-en...

High energy physics experiments scale down to a tabletop

Quantum engineered molecular clocks help search for physics beyond the standard model.

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“I realized that I was unable to explain to my students why plates with such high viscosity bend and subduct into the mantle”-geophysicist Masaki Yoshida of Ritsumeikan University @physicsworld.bsky.social Prompt for a search for the maximum value viscosity takes: physicsworld.com/a/geophysici...

Geophysicist identifies a maximum practical viscosity – Physics World

Boundary between materials that flow and those that don’t could shed light on Earth’s early history

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Coal may have powered the industrial revolution but it also galvanised the science of thermodynamic efficiency because chemically fuelling stuff is hard...

Molecular ratchets: unlocking the chemistry of biological motion

Motor proteins power everything from muscle contraction to bacterial swimming. While replicating their chemically fuelled directional motion in the laboratory has proved difficult, researchers are mak...

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Ever wondered what flocking birds and crystal might have in common? While both can be pretty mesmerising the similarities go a little deeper than that according to researchers @newyorkuniversity.bsky.social philosophicalmagazine.com/structural-a... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Soft crystals model birds flocking

Fluid dynamics-based studies of the collective motion of birds reveal flocking shares a number of characteristics with crystalline materials.

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Wish you could send a message back in time to your former self? Turns out sending messages back in time might not just be a more efficient way of navigating life’s curve balls – it may be a more efficient way of communicating altogether. physicsworld.com/a/back-to-th... @physicsworld.bsky.social

‘Back to the future’ messages are more efficient – Physics World

Closed time-like curves allow greater information capacity when sending messages backwards in time

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Did you ever play with slap bracelets as a child? If so, did you ever contemplate using the "curled up" and "flattened out" bracelet states as the 0's and 1's of a mechanical memory device? Because these guys did, and now they've been published in Science. 🧪⚛️ Story by @annademming.bsky.social

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Can you create a computer out of a 1990s children's toy? In principle, yes: physicists at EPFL and AMOLF have found a practical means of writing mechanical bits into slap-bracelet-like objects by placing them on a precisely rotating turntable. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...

A #quantum advantage is also possible when trying to “see through” opaque/complex media. “When you use quantum light, there are many ways of actually unscrambling the light that do not exist when you use a classical system,” - HugoDefienne @physicsworld.bsky.social : physicsworld.com/a/entangled-...

Entangled photons open up potential applications of anti-scattering optics – Physics World

The use of quantum entanglement to enable selective image transmission through complex media can enhance applications from imaging to secure communication

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GP data is “amazing magical stuff” and “a real pig to work with” says @bengoldacre.bsky.social Hence the development of OpenSAFELY for researchers to navigate and leverage the thickets of health data for stronger health services with patient confidentiality intact… academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

Diving into the health data goldmine

Abstract. Health data offers the analyst both an embarrassment of riches in breadth and detail, but also a headache in terms of data handling challenges. A

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Imagine an AA battery powering a fridge - that was the kind of mismatch lunar researchers have been wrestling with when lunar sample magnetization measurements suggested the magnetic field of the Moon had been larger than the Earth's. Now they may have an answer... physicsworld.com/a/lunar-magn...

Lunar magnetic field mystery may finally have an explanation – Physics World

Physicists weren’t sure why Moon rocks brought back during the Apollo missions are more strongly magnetized than models predict

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Decades of research have gone into suppressing noise for higher performance computing devices – now researchers are finding ways to exploit noise for image generation www.livescience.com/technology/c... #thermodynamiccomputing #probabilisticcomputing

'Thermodynamic computer' can mimic AI neural networks — using orders of magnitude less energy to generate images

Researchers generated images from noise, using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models require.

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Artificial retinas; pacemakers that degrade in the body and are safely excreted through the kidneys when the job supporting the heart is done – thinking biocompatible flexible electronic materials design is pretty much nailed? Think again: www.chemistryworld.com/features/how... @chemistryworld.com

How soft electronics are transforming medical devices

Degradable pacemakers and artificial neurons showcase how flexible, tissue-compatible electronics are revolutionising medicine. But translating these materials from lab bench to clinic requires solvin...

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Observations of a galaxy harking back to the Universe’s infancy revealed five times the heat we would expect – so what does that mean for our theories of cosmology? Perhaps as with people, age in cosmology is not so easy to extrapolate... physicsworld.com/a/hot-ancien... #cosmology

Hot ancient galaxy cluster challenges current cosmological models – Physics World

Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light years away suggest much more energetic early cluster growth than current theories assume

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Metalinguistics – the ability to understand the ambiguity in eg “Eliza wanted her cast out” and recursivity – eg the island in the lake in the island in the… - previously thought uniquely human, not anymore…how come?... academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

Open to pupils aged 14–16 in eligible UK schools (state-funded, non-selective) 🧪

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Entries are now open for the Young Science Writer Award 2026. Deadline: 19 March, 23:59. Awards ceremony: 15 June at the Science Museum, London. £2,500 in cash prizes. Submit via the website: zurl.co/bDSy1

Reduce, re-use, recycle - just as important for #quantumcomputers as it is for household waste. Researchers at US based Atom Computing, Inc & their collaborators report success in retaining atom levels, key to scaling up quantum computing without escalating errors: physicsworld.com/a/qubit-recy...

Qubit ‘recycling’ gives neutral-atom quantum computing a boost – Physics World

Reducing atom loss and re-using already-measured atoms enables more complex quantum computations

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How have I not noticed the National Gallery mosaics before? Science! Rutherford! Sea monsters! Amazing stuff

What could you do if you could make a staple material from the semiconductor industry superconduct? Leverage a trillion dollar infrastructure for next gen quantum tech? Ultra high density superconducting device chips? Hybrid quantum and classical computing?.... www.livescience.com/technology/c...

New semiconductor could allow classical and quantum computing on the same chip, thanks to superconductivity breakthrough

Researchers believe they can fit 25 million Josephson junctions — a useful component for quantum computing — on one two-inch wafer with this approach.

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Time crystals may not be so fragile after all. Researchers @aalto.fi @royalholloway.bsky.social and @lancasteruni.bsky.social have shown their time crystal can withstand interactions with the sloshing about of a mechanical surface wave, like those at the seaside www.livescience.com/technology/c...

Exotic 'time crystals' could be used as memory in quantum computers, promising research finds

Experiments show that a time crystal based on magnons can interact with mechanical waves without being destroyed.

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A broken clock is still right twice a day but what use is a really bad clock? Apparently very useful for settling the trade off between precision and entropy at the quantum level... physicsworld.com/a/researcher...

Researchers pin down the true cost of precision in quantum clocks – Physics World

Trade-off between precision and entropy production lies in measurement process

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Q: What can you do with a clock that only "ticks" when an electron randomly tunnels through a double quantum dot? A: More than you might expect! Fun story about entropy & the second law of thermodynamics in the #quantum world by @annademming.bsky.social 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/researcher...

Researchers pin down the true cost of precision in quantum clocks – Physics World

Trade-off between precision and entropy production lies in measurement process

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Known as a “lip out” or the “golfer’s curse,” the sometimes strange behavior of golf balls has bedeviled players for centuries. Now, physicists have figured out how they happen. Just don't expect the discovery to improve your game... Fun story by @annademming.bsky.social for @science.org

Have physicists finally solved the ‘golfer’s curse’?

Team says it has hit on an explanation for heartbreaking “lip outs”

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Experimentalist's maxim: “I’m not surprised it worked. I’m always surprised how hard it is to *get* it to work. Making it look and do exactly what you design it to do – that’s the really hard part.” - Simon Gröblacher in this @annademming.bsky.social piece: physicsworld.com/a/single-pho... 🧪⚛️

Single-phonon coupler brings different quantum technologies together – Physics World

Waveguide-style approach promises to pair the versatility of phononic quantum technologies with the tight control of photonic ones

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“I’m not surprised that it worked. I’m always surprised how hard it is to get it to work” says Simon Groeblacher at TU Delft “Making it to look and do exactly what you design it to do – that’s the really hard part.” Here the effort paid off... physicsworld.com/a/single-pho... #quantum

Single-phonon coupler brings different quantum technologies together – Physics World

Waveguide-style approach promises to pair the versatility of phononic quantum technologies with the tight control of photonic ones

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Biophysicists are realizing that there is an undervalued element at play in early development: Aside from genes, mechanical forces also steer the growth of embryos. @annademming.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/genes-have-h...

Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things | Quanta Magazine

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit mechanical forces for growth and development.

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Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.

The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live

Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry

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Congratulations John Clarke, Michel Devoret & John Martinis for today's #PhysicsNobel Prize for detecting the quantum effect - "quantum tunnelling" - in systems large enough to hold in your hand. Love an excuse to dwell on quantum physics! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Quantum Dance - YouTube

Dance piece snippets and digital dance pieces inspired by quantum science and technology. This collection is created to celebrate the UNESCO International Ye...

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Hydrogen provides a clean source of energy on demand…if you have the means to store such a volatile and reactive substance. Now researchers in Japan suggest they have hit on a game changing electrolyte for hydrogen batteries. www.chemistryworld.com/news/hydroge... #hydrogenbattery

Hydrogen battery relieves the pressure for clean energy storage

Researchers develop an electrolyte that overcomes the low-capacity high-operating-temperature issues of previous hydrogen storage setups

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How do you make a page turner out of industrial chemistry? One way is to mine the rich seam linking movies with weapons of mass destruction as @alicelovejoy.bsky.social demonstrates so successfully in Tales of Militant Chemistry. www.sciencenews.org/article/tale... @sciencenews.bsky.social

A new book explores the link between film giant Kodak and the atomic bomb

In Tales of Militant Chemistry, Alice Lovejoy traces how film giants Kodak and Agfa helped produce weapons of war during the 20th century.

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Einstein's general relativity and classical Newtonian physics - not so different after all? Researchers @caltech.edu develop equations to explore gravity & black hole physics inspired by Maxwell's equations for light physicsworld.com/a/reformulat... @physicsworld.bsky.social #relativity #blackhole

Reformulation of general relativity brings it closer to Newtonian physics – Physics World

Calculations reveal inverse square law behaviour in binary black holes

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Could retrieving the “neglecton” from the scrap heap of anyon maths allow topological quantum computing enthusiasts to finally have their cake and eat it? physicsworld.com/a/predicted-... #quantumcomputing @physicsworld.bsky.social Thanks Aaron Lauda @usc.edu for explaining it all to me

Predicted quasiparticles called ‘neglectons’ hold promise for robust, universal quantum computing – Physics World

Discovery could lift theoretical constraints on calculations achievable with certain types of topological quantum computers

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