Physics World Weekender: Earth Day 2024
Explore some of our recent coverage linked to the environment and climate change as we celebrate World Earth Day on Monday 22 April.
Powering the green economy: the quest for magnets without rare earths
James McKenzie describes the search for new magnets that do away with controversial “rare-earth” elements entirely
The climate is doomed if we continue to be fixated by economic growth
Johan Hansson argues that it will never be possible to meet our climate targets if countries continue their obsession with growing the economy
Spinning a sustainable fashion revolution: meet the physicists turning wood into clothes
Physicist and entrepreneur Janne Poranen on transforming cellulose into clothing, to combat the environmental impact of the textile industry
Research updates
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
Spectral and phase-contrast CT combine strengths to enhance X-ray imaging
Researchers demonstrate the first integration of spectral and phase-contrast computed tomography using tomographic edge-illumination
Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a surprising magnetic personality
Sagittarius A* and Messier 87 black holes are similar, Event Horizon Telescope reveals
Giant quantum tornado behaves like a black hole in miniature
Swirling vortex in superfluid helium could let researchers study rotating curved space–times in the lab
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
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Entangled entities: Bohr, Einstein and the battle over quantum fundamentals
Philip Ball reviews Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement by Jim Baggott and John L Heilbron
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
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NASA demands new designs for cost-hit Mars Sample Return mission
Space agency admits that a new timeline of 2040 for the craft is “unacceptably too long”
US Electron-Ion Collider hits construction milestone
The Electron-Ion Collider will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York
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
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
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
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
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
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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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The Advanced Materials Show 2024
15—16 May 2024 | Birmingham, UK
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