Reviewer of the month: Breanna Binder is an Associate Professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is interested in characterizing high-mass X-ray binary populations in nearby galaxies, using them as tracers of star formation and endpoints of massive stellar evolution.

Welcoming Sophie Roman and Brato Chakrabarti to our Editorial Board. They bring expertise in flow microdynamics, geochemistry, biophysics, and soft and active matter.

Dominik Juraschek is our Outstanding Reviewer for October 2025. He is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research lies at the interface of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational materials science.

This month, we welcome five new members to our Editorial Board: Lu Chen, Marlies Goorden, Inhyuk Nam, Jun-yu (Bruce) Yu, Jasminder Sindhu. They bring expertise in very broad and diverse areas, reflecting the growth of the journal.

Outstanding reviewer, August 2025: Rajasekhar Medapalli is an Editor for Advanced Functional Materials at Wiley with a research background in ultrafast and localised light-matter interactions governing the interplay between electrons, spins, and the lattice.

Georgios Koutentakis is our outstanding reviewer of the month. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, where he develops theoretical frameworks for interacting ultracold atoms and molecules.

Lachlan Lindoy is our outstanding reviewer of this month. He is a Senior Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. He develops theoretical techniques for the simulation of non-Markovian open quantum system dynamics with applications to condensed phase chemical and materials systems.

Jennifer Sears is our outstanding reviewer of this month. Jennifer is an assistant scientist in the Condensed Matter Physics group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her research uses neutron scattering to study unconventional magnetism and charge order. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

Yuto Ashida is our outstanding reviewer of May. Yuto is an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests span various areas of physics, including quantum many-body physics, quantum optics/information, and nonequilibrium open systems.

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Special relativity made visible! Dominik Hornof and colleagues used femtosecond laser pulses and ultrafast photography, and, by virtually reducing the speed of light, demonstrated the Terrell-Penrose effect. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This month we welcome Christian Bick, Mithun Chowdhury and Fan Yang to our board. They bring expertise in network science, soft matter physics, strongly-correlated electronic systems and superconductivity respectively, reflecting the diversity of topics at our journal. www.nature.com/commsphys/ed...

Alexander Guttridge is our outstanding reviewer of April. Alex is a Royal Society University Research fellow at Durham University, UK. His research focuses on controlling ultracold atoms and molecules to realize novel quantum materials and quantum sensors.
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Improving gender balance in editorial boards: A perspective from the Communications journals series.
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Ronen Kroeze is our outstanding referee of March. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. His interests lie in ultracold atomic systems with a focus on quantum simulation of many-body physics. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...

The QIP 2025 conference has started in Raleigh, NC! We are there with our editor Camilla Pellegrini #QIP2025

This week, we are revisiting the Q&As we published as part of the Women in Physics collection in 2024. Celebrating women and girls in science!
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Hiroshi Takatsu is our outstanding referee of the month. He is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Japan. His research focuses on exotic states in strongly correlated electron systems and frustrated magnetism at the intersection of physics and chemistry. www.nature.com/commsphys/re...