Almost a year ago, this cover came out. Cropped from an illustration I made for a brilliant article in @physicsworld.bsky.social covering weird phenomena of quantum Cheshire cat. physicsworld.com/a/curiouser-... #SciArt #Quantum #Physics #SciComm

Understanding the molecular conformations involved in catalysis & building hypotheses to test experimentally has been ‘the privilege of the computational chemist’, says Varinia Bernales. @andyextance.bsky.social #ChemSky #catalysis #AI www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...

AI agents accelerate catalyst discovery from simulation to scale-up

Artificial intelligence tools are transforming catalyst research, with new AI agents capable of completing in minutes what once took computational chemists days. Andy Extance explores how all scientis...

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A summary illustration capturing the work of Prof. Jacqueline Cole published in @chemistryworld.com @cambridgephysics.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-... #AI #Chemistry #DataMining #MaterialsScience

A beautiful art installation, doing justice to the prose of Ted Chiang. A commentary on humanity and the arrogance of human uniqueness, delivered with zero bitterness from the perspective of our nonhuman friends, parrots. Video: vimeo.com/195588827 #TedChiang #BookSky #TheGreatSilence #SciArt

Allora & Calzadilla (in collaboration with Ted Chiang), The Great Silence

Quartz Studio ha il piacere di presentare The Great Silence, un progetto speciale degli artisti, di base a Porto Rico, Jennifer Allora (Philadelphia, USA, 1974)…

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A profile of Phil Anderson for the Biogr. Mem. FRS. www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.20865

Philip Warren Anderson

Philip Warren Anderson was a pioneering theoretical physicist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of complex systems. Anderson received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his groundb...

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Q-Word Explained (Part 1): Ice Cubes, Light Particles, and the Soap Dispenser open.substack.com/pub/apprecia... #QuantumPhysics #ScienceExplained #Physics #Quanta #Photon

Q-Word Explained (Part 1): Ice Cubes, Light Particles, and the Soap Dispenser

I know, it is yet another article on quantum physics.

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Open for Commissions: Need scientifically accurate illustrations for complex physics & math concepts? I bring the rigour of a physicist to the eye of an illustrator. 📧 mayanks.sciart@gmail.com 🔗 lnkd.in/eXUqGpJG #ScienceCommunication #SciArt #Physics #Freelance

In the fourth of our series of truly weird quantum effects we look at the bizarre situation in which the causal order of events are in a quantum superposition. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zLrQ50WTWmj

Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect – Physics World

Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers

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New @physicsworld.bsky.social illustration: what if quantum superposition applies to time and causality (cause and effect? Indefinite causal order asks whether A causes B, B causes A…or both at once. I made a simplified take for quantum switches. #QuantumPhysics #Physics #SciArt #IYQ2025 #Quantum

"If you're reading this on a phone or laptop, you’re holding the result of a gamble someone once made on curiosity. That same curiosity is still alive in university and research labs today—in often unglamorous, ... www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1...

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research.

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Modern life is very difficult these days, especially while walking with a hot drink (filled to the brim). Some of us tiptoe; some walk fast enough to prevent the spilling; others proceed carefully and slowly towards the ultimate destination.

Electrons usually flow freely in metals and stall in insulators, but some “quantum materials” can flip between the two. The schematic was made for a preprint that visualises this transition. #Science #Physics #MaterialsScience #ResearchHighlight #quantum #entanglement #SciArt

It was nice to stumble upon my @physicsworld.bsky.social PW's 'Cheshire cat' coverart in the office today :) #sciart #physics #Quantum

An excellent and nuanced piece of science journalism with fresh analogies, role of entanglement, and strangeness of 'Strange Metals' by @zacksavitsky.bsky.social @science.org #quantum #quantummatter #condmat #scicomm #physics

zack savitsky@zacksavitsky.bsky.social · last yr.

in a copper-clad laboratory in Vienna, the textbook understanding of electricity is starting to crack. what’s emerging is a new vision of electronics without the electron. my latest feature for @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Recently, a few pictures made me happy: 1. My 'Quantum Cheshire Cat' illustration is on the June 2025 @physicsworld.bsky.social cover. 2. A century after Heisenberg’s Helgoland breakthrough, my work appears near that very spot in Quantum Briefing 2025. Source: Physics World [1/3]

The free-to-read Physics World Quantum Briefing on display on the island of Helgoland, just metres from where Werner Heisenberg did his seminal work on quantum mechanics 100 years ago. It includes a great article on quantum Cheshire cats from Iulia Georgescu. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

Happy (more than happy!) to see my illustrations at this special spot 😊 bsky.app/profile/shre...

Matin Durrani@matindurrani.bsky.social · last yr.

Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here. physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here. physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

Finally, a book that does justice to the hidden heroes of #quantum physics: Landau, Anderson, Wilson i.e., cond. mat. physics community. Symmetry breaking & renormalization, concepts which unite #physics. It includes key papers from many-body physics (see timeline). Looking forward to reading it!!

Frank Verstraete@fverstraete.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to see our book "Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics" published in English www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran.... Unlike other popular science books, we explain quantum and its applications in the way working physicists use and understand them, without shying away from the many-body problem.

It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature

A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...

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#WomenOfQuantum is back! I took a long break from this series due to life circumstances and having chosen to feature none other than the only women to have won the Abel Prize for her contributions to mathematics: Karen Uhlenbeck 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️🧵 clioagrapidis.com/2025/04/23/w...

My feature article about the delayed-choice quantum eraser is out now in @physicsworld.bsky.social! physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu...

New illustrations ALERT: @physicsworld.bsky.social article by @mariaviolaris.bsky.social Had fun representing the #physics behind 'Quantum Eraser' from #quantum information POV- a challenging topic. New elements (photon hits) were introduced for visual clarity. #IYQ2025 #SciArt shorturl.at/VLhxZ

A free 64-page digital magazine on quantum from @physicsworld.bsky.social? Yes please! physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

The @physicsworld.bsky.social Quantum Briefing 2025 is out now — your essential guide to the latest breakthroughs, big ideas, and bold questions shaping the quantum frontier. 🔗 physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a... #QuantumPhysics #QuantumTech #PhysicsWorld #ScienceReading

Five illustrations: 3 schematics + 2 frontispieces—exploring the quirkiest quantum effects, published in @physicsworld.bsky.social (Quantum Briefing 2025)! [@ioppublishing.bsky.social, @iopp-quantum.bsky.social] physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a... #Quantum #SciArt #IYQ2025

I made a new illustration for an article in Physics World magazine. It captures another weird and non-trivial effect from quantum physics — the #quantum Cheshire Cat. Science dictates the design, and the images show brief summary and design choices. #SciArt #Quantum #Physics #illustration

Physics World@physicsworld.bsky.social · last yr.

Continuing our spotlight on quantum effects so “weird” they make superposition and entanglement seem almost ordinary, Iulia Georgescu explores the curiosity that is a quantum Cheshire cat. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/curiouser-...

🧪⚛️ Now shared in blog post form, my public talk about "the direct democracy of matter". nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/talk...

Talk about "The Direct Democracy of Matter"

The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a theme.  The intent is to get a wide variety o...

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🧪⚛️ Video is now available for the talks from last week's Rice Scientia lectures about democracy. First up, my colleague Rodrigo Ferreira talking about "Does AI have politics?" and second (starting around 27:00), me speaking on "The Direct Democracy of Matter". Fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbuV...

Rice University Scientia Institute "Democracy" talk - April 8th

YouTube video by Scientia Institute Rice University

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To celebrate the International Year of #Quantum, we're doing a series of articles about quantum effects that are so weird, they make superposition and entanglement seem almost ordinary. First up, for #WorldQuantumDay, is the quantum Zeno effect: physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu... 🧪⚛️

The quantum Zeno effect: how the ‘measurement problem’ went from philosophers’ paradox to physicists’ toolbox – Physics World

A stand-out example of quantum weirdness is turning out to be surprisingly useful, as Margaret Harris explains

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