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Three successful women physicists in India – Kaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha – talk to Shobha Shukla and Matin Durrani about their triumphs, the challenges they’ve faced and their attempts to build a more equitable future. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/how-women-...
How women physicists in India are breaking down barriers and shaping the future – Physics World
Kaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha describe their journeys as physicists in India
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The connection between black hole physics and thermodynamics just got even deeper, and physicists are still trying to figure out why. 🧪⚛️ 🔭 physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
Physicists find unexpected connection between black hole mergers and thermodynamics – Physics World
Properties of a merger remnant can be predicted using a simple entropy-maximization principle
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Nuclei keep fusing in metal foils as incident energy falls. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/h3rh50ZvQVi
Nuclear fusion persists at ultralow energies inside metal foils – Physics World
Experiment suggests the environment matters when deuterium fuses
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If you’ve ever kept a drink cool on a hot summer day by placing it inside a frozen sleeve, you’ll understand the appeal of phase change materials. But what if you want to cool your drink more quickly and evenly? These researchers have the answers. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/heat-trans...
Heat-transfer fins give phase change materials a boost – Physics World
Modelling points the way towards optimal designs for systems that store and release heat
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A team of physicists has harnessed machine learning to develop a non-invasive technique for detecting tuberculosis directly from human breath. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ai-sniffs-...
AI sniffs out tuberculosis in breath’s chemical signature – Physics World
Machine learning decodes the complex chemical signatures in human breath to deliver rapid, non-invasive tuberculosis diagnoses
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Antonia Seymour, who is chief executive of IOP Publishing, talks about challenges and opportunities in scientific publishing. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/y6Yu50ZuIXo
How scholarly publishers are safeguarding trust in science – Physics World
Antonia Seymour of IOP Publishing is our podcast guest
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Visitors have been snapping up tickets fast to see the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum in London. This 68m-long cloth, which depicts the Norman invasion of England in 1066, left France for the first time ever. Find out how physics made the journey possible. physicsworld.com/a/the-bayeux...
The Bayeux Tapestry: how optical techniques have let this artwork come home – Physics World
Honor Powrie celebrates the optical techniques that have digitized, restored and protected the Bayeux Tapestry
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Engineers are constantly striving to improve the safety and performance of electric-vehicle batteries. But it may just be as simple as utilizing physical pressure. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/pressurizi...
Pressurizing EV battery electrodes could make them last longer, if it’s done right – Physics World
Extending the lifetime of electric-vehicle batteries could reduce the need for mining critical minerals
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Leron Borsten and Shanti Pise see if it's possible to teach quantum teleportation to teenagers using a pictorial approach to quantum physics in just one week. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/can-a-16-y...
Can a 16-year-old really understand quantum teleportation? – Physics World
Leron Borsten and Shanti Pise report from a week-long event that sought to teach quantum physics to teenagers
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A new method of stabilizing radioactive, pear-shaped molecules like this one could open the door to sensitive searches for physics beyond the Standard Model – with no particle accelerator required. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/cold-radio...
Cold radioactive molecules offer a tabletop route to new physics – Physics World
Nuclear symmetry violations could show up in molecules containing pear-shaped radium nuclei
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A new “photonic multi-lane highway” carries multiple topologically-protected optical signals without the need for a bulky insulator. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/w4um50ZtILt
'Photonic multi-lane highway' enjoys insulator-free topological protection – Physics World
New technology uses a photonic valley half-semimetal
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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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New measurements by @cern.bsky.social's ALPHA collaboration show that antihydrogen's ground-state hyperfine splitting is the same as normal hydrogen's to within four ppm. That's two orders of magnitude more precise than previous experiments. Getting closer...🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/matter-ant...
Matter-antimatter symmetry measurement sets new precision record – Physics World
CERN’s ALPHA collaboration pins down the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen within four parts per million
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At what point does a material become so viscous that it cannot flow at all? Geophysicist Masaki Yoshida found an answer, and it's much lower than expected. 🧪⚛️ 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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That's no moon - or is it? An astonishingly large 'exosatellite' with Jupiter's mass has been found orbiting a brown dwarf that orbits a red dwarf star, but astronomers are debating how to classify this bizarre object. I wrote about it for @physicsworld.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/discovery-...
Discovery of giant ‘exosatellite’ challenges our notion of what makes a moon – Physics World
In a novel three-tiered hierarchical system, the star CD-35 2722 is orbited by a brown dwarf that, in turn, is orbited by a newly discovered exosatellite candidate
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Researchers in China have cross-calibrated radiation detectors on 25 navigation satellites. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/97Uf50ZsfJL
GPS particle detectors track space radiation over two decades – Physics World
Cross calibration combines data from 25 satellites
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We explore how quantum computers could be used in particle physics in our latest podcast. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/lAeS50Zsfv6
Quarks and qubits: how quantum computing could transform particle physics – Physics World
This podcast also explores the intersection of general relativity and quantum information
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Faramarz S Gard, a researcher at Argentina’s Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), describes the first-hand impact of funding cuts and job losses in the country’s scientific system. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/letter-fro...
Letter from Argentina: 'an empty desk and an idle electron microscope signal the erosion of the country's science' – Physics World
Faramarz S Gard laments the decline of Argentine science
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A possible exosatellite has been discovered 73 light years away. It’s roughly the size of Jupiter and orbiting a brown dwarf, which in turn is orbiting the star CD-35 2722. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/discovery-...
Discovery of giant ‘exosatellite’ challenges our notion of what makes a moon – Physics World
In a novel three-tiered hierarchical system, the star CD-35 2722 is orbited by a brown dwarf that, in turn, is orbited by a newly discovered exosatellite candidate
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Did you know one of the most fundamental results in quantum physics was first published in a journal funded by media mogul Robert Maxwell who paid published authors 10 cents per word? Iulia Georgescu reveals all. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/john-bell-...
John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics – Physics World
Iulia Georgescu looks at the curious history of the journal Physics
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Researchers have found that sensitive health information about individual patients can be extracted from medical AI models more effectively than previously thought. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/privacy-ri...
Privacy risks from medical AI are greater than previously thought – Physics World
Study reveals how sensitive health information about individual patients could be extracted from diagnostic medical AI models
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Researchers have observed a four-carbon sugar, erythrulose, in the interstellar medium for the first time. Such sugar could have contributed to the resources available for early biological processes, providing insight into how life began on Earth. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/scientists...
Scientists discover sugar in interstellar space – Physics World
The first detection of sugar in the interstellar medium could shed more light on how life began on Earth
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Using structured light to boost the visibility of subtle peripheral vision patterns called Boehm's brushes could provide a new method for diagnosing eye disease. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/structured...
Structured light could deliver a new method for diagnosing eye disease – Physics World
A quantum optics technique that boosts the visibility of subtle peripheral vision patterns called Boehm's brushes could provide a new test of retinal health
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Researchers have used modified rotary sprinklers to provide new insights into the “reverse sprinkler” problem popularized by Richard Feynman. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/experiment...
Experiments provide new insights into the reverse sprinkler problem – Physics World
New experiments suggest that a reverse sprinkler is driven by angular momentum induced at its centre as water is drawn in
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New experiments show that “strange” metals (which conduct electricity relatively poorly) owe at least some of their peculiar properties to the quantum entanglement of their electrons, backing up previous theoretical findings. physicsworld.com/a/quantum-en...
Quantum entanglement explains why strange metals are so strange – Physics World
New measurements and a tool from quantum metrology provide new insights into metals with unusually high electrical resistance
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An exceptionally loud gravitational wave signal is giving us an unprecedented glimpse into the region of space near a black hole’s event horizon – the “surface of no return” beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the pull of gravity. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/super-loud...
Super-loud gravitational waves offer a new way to study black hole event horizons – Physics World
Region near the "surface of no return" was previously only accessible with theoretical models
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"Imagine that you are among the experts charged with compiling a 'compendium of what you need to know right now'. What would you include of science – and why?" Fascinating question from veteran @physicsworld.bsky.social columnist Bob Crease: physicsworld.com/a/tell-us-wh... 🧪⚛️
Tell us what science you need to know to be 'cultured' – Physics World
What ought a cultured human know of science? Robert P Crease seeks your ideas
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X-ray images recorded during an orbital spaceflight exhibited similar quality to those taken preflight on Earth - demonstrating the feasibility of adding radiography as a new diagnostic tool for monitoring astronaut health. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/first-medi...
First medical X-ray images taken in space achieve diagnostic quality – Physics World
Diagnostic X-ray images recorded during an orbital spaceflight exhibited similar contrast and spatial resolution to those taken preflight on Earth
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From finding new particles to creating new materials, AI is an increasingly important part of physics, but what happens if it produces answers that we do not – or cannot – fathom? Claire Malone talks to the physics community about how AI is changing physics. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/ais-black-...
AI's black box problem: discovering physics we don't understand – Physics World
Claire Malone wonders what happens if AI produces answers we can’t – or don’t – understand
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A compact optical technology that has already proved its worth in Earth-bound applications could be on its way to space after researchers showed that it can map the Sun’s magnetic field just as well as traditional instruments. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/metasurfac...