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Peter Higgs: the story behind his interview with Physics World
Matin Durrani recalls the time Peter Higgs agreed to do an interview with Physics World
Can thinking like a scientist help us tackle societal issues?
Eva Amsen reviews Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun
Shrimp-inspired nanoclusters enable multifunctional artificial vision systems
Researchers develop nanocluster-based photoreceptors that combine colour vision, photoadaptation and circular polarization vision into a single system
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Bacterial nanowires make an electrical grid in the soil
Anaerobic bacteria depend upon a single family of proteins to transfer extra electrons they produce to electric hairs on their surface
Dielectric laser accelerator creates focused electron beam
Advancements in nanoscience, lasers and vacuum drove breakthrough
New method pinpoints the 3D location of cold atoms in a lattice
Improvement to quantum gas microscopy gives the position of atoms in all three spatial dimensions, not just two
Getting closer to measuring quantum gravity
New technique measures the gravitational pull on a micron-scale levitating magnetic particle
Heat capacity measurements reveal Majorana fermions
Researchers in Japan and Korea say they have found evidence for the existence of these elusive quasiparticles in the thermodynamic behaviour of a Kitaev magnet
Baryon acoustic oscillations hint that dark energy may have changed over time
DESI observations cast doubt on the Standard Model of cosmology
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Africa’s quantum future offers a beacon of hope
Farai Mazhandu and Mhlambululi Mafu argue that quantum technologies can help propel the continent into a new era
Why error correction is quantum computing’s defining challenge
Steve Brierley argues that quantum computers must implement comprehensive error-correction techniques before they can become fully useful to society
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Adjuvant breast radiotherapy: KUH unlocks the clinical upsides of tangential VMAT
Tangential VMAT (tVMAT) is the treatment modality of choice for adjuvant breast radiotherapy at Kuopio University Hospital in Finland
Mauro Paternostro: a vision of the quantum landscape
Quantum physicist Mauro Paternostro talks to Tushna Commissariat about the future of the quantum technology landscape
Europe plans to build 100-qubit quantum computer by 2026
Funded by Quantum Delta NL, the quantum computer is expected to be made publicly available
How schooling fish can be quieter than a solitary swimmer
A school of fish moving together in just the right way was found to be effective at reducing noise
IOP Publishing and Physics World celebrate World Quantum Day
We round-up some of our best quantum content
US astronomers slam cuts to the Chandra X-ray observatory
NASA says that increasing management costs means it cannot afford to the keep the “great observatory” operational
MEPs call for ‘urgent action’ to implement post-quantum encryption standards
Some 20 members of the European Parliament say that new standards are needed to protect against quantum computers
Get set for World Quantum Day 2024
Celebrate World Quantum Day on Sunday 14 April 2024 with Physics World
Bluefors launches its next-generation gas handling system and control software
Bluefors is launching its new-generation gas handling system, redesigned with a focus on safety and reliability
Peter Higgs: Nobel-prize-winning particle theorist dies aged 94
Peter Higgs's work in the 1960s contributed to the prediction of a new particle, the so-called Higgs boson
Meet the ‘quantum plumbers’ uncovering the mysteries of fluid mechanics at the nanoscale
Philip Ball investigates the strange quantum effects that control water flow in carbon nanotubes
Dispatches from the Great North American eclipse of 2024
Viewers in parts of Mexico, the US and Canada enjoyed a rare total solar eclipse yesterday
Roll-to-roll-fabricated hybrid perovskite solar cells reach record efficiencies
Researchers calculate that large-scale devices would be cheap to produce, too
Tackling England’s physics teacher shortage with a new apprenticeship scheme
Urgent action is needed to combat widening inequalities in access to physics education
Planet-gobbling stars are more common than we thought
Spectral analysis of stellar “twins” also suggests a significant fraction of planetary systems may be unstable
REBCO high-temperature superconductors are ideal for tokamak magnets, study suggests
Extensive research confirms material’s ability to create compact yet powerful fields
Battery cyclers: shedding light on the detail of electrochemical materials and devices
High-performance battery cyclers offer reliable, accurate and repeatable test sequences in R&D and production settings
Quasiparticles called merons appear in a synthetic antiferromagnet for the first time
Collective topological chiral spin textures could lead to new concepts for spintronics devices
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Automating patient-specific QA: clinical use of RadCalc and script automation to enhance pre-treatment and in vivo workflow
A live webinar on 23 April 2024 giving clinical insights into the implementation and results achieved using RadCalc and custom scripts for patient-specific QA
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15—16 May 2024 | Birmingham, UK
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