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Matin Durrani looks back at a full week of quantum-themed events organised last week by Physics World and the Institute of Physics, including a panel debate with four future leaders of quantum science and technology at the Royal Institution in central London. ⚛️🧪
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The future of quantum physics and technology debated at the Royal Institution – Physics World
Matin Durrani looks back at a week-long series of events in the UK to mark Quantum Year
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November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Matin Durrani looks back at a full week of quantum-themed events organised last week by Physics World and the Institute of Physics, including a panel debate with four future leaders of quantum science and technology at the Royal Institution in central London. ⚛️🧪
physicsworld.com/a/the-future...
physicsworld.com/a/the-future...
Significant progress towards answering one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s seven Millennium Prize Problems has been achieved using deep learning. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/AEIP50XqYf6
Neural networks discover unstable singularities in fluid systems – Physics World
Result boosts our understanding of the Navier-Stokes equation
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November 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Significant progress towards answering one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s seven Millennium Prize Problems has been achieved using deep learning. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/AEIP50XqYf6
In this podcast we talk about how to make better semiconductor chips: in terms of sustainability, cost, and performance. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/4VLt50Xr7Vy
Designing better semiconductor chips: NP hard problems and forever chemicals – Physics World
We report from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
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November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In this podcast we talk about how to make better semiconductor chips: in terms of sustainability, cost, and performance. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/4VLt50Xr7Vy
A research team at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology in Japan has developed the first PET scanner to achieve sub-0.5 mm spatial resolution. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/high-resol...
High-resolution PET scanner visualizes mouse brain structures with unprecedented detail – Physics World
A PET scanner with optimized depth-of-interaction detectors achieves a record sub-0.5 mm spatial resolution
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November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A research team at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology in Japan has developed the first PET scanner to achieve sub-0.5 mm spatial resolution. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/high-resol...
Researchers shed new light on static electricity by capturing an “image” of charge distributions as charge transfers from one surface to another. Their conclusions cast doubt on previous studies in the field. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-experi...
New experiments on static electricity cast doubt on previous studies in the field – Physics World
Bulk conductivity may have been hiding the dynamics of surface charge transfer, say researchers
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November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Researchers shed new light on static electricity by capturing an “image” of charge distributions as charge transfers from one surface to another. Their conclusions cast doubt on previous studies in the field. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-experi...
Games played under the laws of #quantum mechanics dissipate less energy than their classical equivalents, raising the possibility of a quantum advantage in energy dissipation. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/playing-ga...
Playing games by the quantum rulebook expends less energy – Physics World
New form of quantum advantage emerges from study of game theory and quantum information
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November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Games played under the laws of #quantum mechanics dissipate less energy than their classical equivalents, raising the possibility of a quantum advantage in energy dissipation. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/playing-ga...
Quantum fluctuations produce no entropy, so if you can count those fluctuations as clock “ticks”, you can make a clock with no entropy and nonzero precision. Or can you? New research hints at why there is (still) no free lunch, even in the #quantum world. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/researcher...
Researchers pin down the true cost of precision in quantum clocks – Physics World
Trade-off between precision and entropy production lies in measurement process
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November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Quantum fluctuations produce no entropy, so if you can count those fluctuations as clock “ticks”, you can make a clock with no entropy and nonzero precision. Or can you? New research hints at why there is (still) no free lunch, even in the #quantum world. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/researcher...
Gravity might be able to quantum-entangle particles even if the gravitational field itself is classical. That is the conclusion of a new study by Joseph Aziz and Richard Howl. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/809x50XprF7
Classical gravity may entangle matter, new study claims – Physics World
Surprising result could guide searches for quantum gravity
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November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gravity might be able to quantum-entangle particles even if the gravitational field itself is classical. That is the conclusion of a new study by Joseph Aziz and Richard Howl. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/809x50XprF7
Artificial muscles made from microbubble arrays and activated via ultrasound can be used as mobile conformable drug-delivery patches, among many other potential applications. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/microbubbl...
Microbubbles power soft, programmable artificial muscles – Physics World
Ultrasound-activated microbubble arrays create flexible actuators for applications ranging from soft robotics to minimally invasive surgery
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November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Artificial muscles made from microbubble arrays and activated via ultrasound can be used as mobile conformable drug-delivery patches, among many other potential applications. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/microbubbl...
By simply placing two identical elastic metasurfaces atop each other and then rotating them relative to each other, the topology of the elastic waves dispersing through the resulting stacked structure can be changed. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/KJ1B50XomnR
Twistelastics controls how mechanical waves move in metamaterials – Physics World
New technique could deliver reconfigurable phononic devices with myriad applications
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November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
By simply placing two identical elastic metasurfaces atop each other and then rotating them relative to each other, the topology of the elastic waves dispersing through the resulting stacked structure can be changed. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/KJ1B50XomnR
Researchers in China claim to have made the first ever room-temperature superconductor by compressing an alloy of lanthanum-scandium and the hydrogen-rich material ammonia borane together at pressures of 250–260 GPa. 🧪⚛️
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Ternary hydride shows signs of room-temperature superconductivity at high pressures – Physics World
New alloy is made by doping scandium into the well-known La-H binary system
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November 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Researchers in China claim to have made the first ever room-temperature superconductor by compressing an alloy of lanthanum-scandium and the hydrogen-rich material ammonia borane together at pressures of 250–260 GPa. 🧪⚛️
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This podcast explores the scientific and technological significance of 2D materials with Antonio Rossi, who is a researcher in 2D Materials Engineering at the Italian Institute of Technology. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/LpW550XnTyw
Unlocking the potential of 2D materials: graphene and much more – Physics World
This podcast features Antonio Rossi at the Italian Institute of Technology
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November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This podcast explores the scientific and technological significance of 2D materials with Antonio Rossi, who is a researcher in 2D Materials Engineering at the Italian Institute of Technology. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/LpW550XnTyw
Researchers have combined 3D ultrasound localization microscopy with a multi-lens array method to image blood flow dynamics in entire organs with micrometric resolution. 🧪⚛️
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Ultrasound probe maps real-time blood flow across entire organs – Physics World
Multi-lens array probe visualizes the micro-vasculature of entire large organs without compromising image resolution or frame rate
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November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Researchers have combined 3D ultrasound localization microscopy with a multi-lens array method to image blood flow dynamics in entire organs with micrometric resolution. 🧪⚛️
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The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration has detected strong evidence for second-generation black holes, which were formed from earlier mergers of smaller black holes. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/uMxT50Xn2JW
Rapidly-spinning black holes put new limit on ultralight bosons – Physics World
Gravitational waves confirm predictions of Einstein and Kerr
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November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration has detected strong evidence for second-generation black holes, which were formed from earlier mergers of smaller black holes. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/uMxT50Xn2JW
Using a new type of low-power, compact, fluid-based prism to steer the beam in a laser scanning microscope could transform brain imaging and help researchers learn more about neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/fluid-base...
Fluid-based laser scanning technique could improve brain imaging – Physics World
Laser scanning microscopy using a fluid-based prism to steer the light could help researchers learn more about neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease
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November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Using a new type of low-power, compact, fluid-based prism to steer the beam in a laser scanning microscope could transform brain imaging and help researchers learn more about neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/fluid-base...
To celebrate 2025 John Bell Day, which marks the work of the great Northern Irish quantum physicist, do check out this legendary feature he wrote for Physics World just before he died in 1990. ⚛️🧪🔭
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Against 'measurement': John Bell on our continuing struggles with quantum mechanics – Physics World
Uncertainty over terms such as ‘apparatus’ is still rife in serious discussions of quantum mechanics, over 60 years after its conception, says John Bell
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November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
To celebrate 2025 John Bell Day, which marks the work of the great Northern Irish quantum physicist, do check out this legendary feature he wrote for Physics World just before he died in 1990. ⚛️🧪🔭
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What's the difference between a planet and a star? New observations with @jwstobserver.bsky.social and the VLT reveal some striking similarities in the earliest stages of their existence.
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Young rogue planet grows like a star – Physics World
Telescope observations reveal material accreting onto the planet Cha1107-7626 in a way that resembles the infancy of stars
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November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
What's the difference between a planet and a star? New observations with @jwstobserver.bsky.social and the VLT reveal some striking similarities in the earliest stages of their existence.
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A laser-driven muon source could soon be used to peer inside large structures like pyramids and blast furnaces.🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/portable-s...
Portable source could produce high-energy muon beams – Physics World
Research could lead to ultracompact muon sources for applications such as tomography
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November 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A laser-driven muon source could soon be used to peer inside large structures like pyramids and blast furnaces.🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/portable-s...
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Here is the second part of my overview of the quantum computing industry for @physicsworld.bsky.social
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Quantum computing on the verge: correcting errors, developing algorithms and building up the user base – Physics World
Philip Ball dives into the challenges in developing quantum computing, and building up investments and users for the tech
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October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Here is the second part of my overview of the quantum computing industry for @physicsworld.bsky.social
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Physicists have replicated a well-known fluid-dynamics process called the Rayleigh-Taylor instability on a #quantum scale for the first time. The work could lead to a new platform for understanding gravitational dynamics in the early universe. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/quantum-fl...
Quantum fluids mix like oil and water – Physics World
Rayleigh-Taylor instability responsible for mushroom clouds appears in a two-component BEC
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October 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Physicists have replicated a well-known fluid-dynamics process called the Rayleigh-Taylor instability on a #quantum scale for the first time. The work could lead to a new platform for understanding gravitational dynamics in the early universe. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/quantum-fl...
What happens when you blend the art of steampunk with the science of quantum physics? Find out in this podcast with Nicole Yunger Halpern and Bruce Rosenbaum. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/sjrR50Xkgxg
Quantum steampunk: we explore the art and science – Physics World
Our podcast guests are a physicist and a sculptor
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October 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
What happens when you blend the art of steampunk with the science of quantum physics? Find out in this podcast with Nicole Yunger Halpern and Bruce Rosenbaum. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/sjrR50Xkgxg
Researchers create the largest and most efficient triple-junction perovskite–perovskite–silicon tandem solar cell to date. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/large-area...
Large-area triple-junction perovskite solar cell achieves record efficiency – Physics World
Novel design strategies provide a step towards more efficient and stable perovskite–perovskite–silicon solar cells
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October 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Researchers create the largest and most efficient triple-junction perovskite–perovskite–silicon tandem solar cell to date. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/large-area...
How much do you know about the physicist who invented the World Wide Web? Tara Shears reviews Tim Berners-Lee's new autobiography -- "an easy read from an important voice". 🧪⚛️
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Tim Berners-Lee: why the inventor of the Web is ‘optimistic, idealistic and perhaps a little naïve' – Physics World
Tara Shears reviews This is for Everyone: the Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee
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October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
How much do you know about the physicist who invented the World Wide Web? Tara Shears reviews Tim Berners-Lee's new autobiography -- "an easy read from an important voice". 🧪⚛️
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Understanding the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity could unlock many powerful technologies. Physicists have now developed a new protocol enabling the study of high-temperature superconductors on an experimentally realizable platform. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-protoc...
New protocol makes an elusive superconducting signature measurable – Physics World
Physicists have designed a protocol to study high-temperature superconductivity on an experimentally realizable platform
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October 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Understanding the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity could unlock many powerful technologies. Physicists have now developed a new protocol enabling the study of high-temperature superconductors on an experimentally realizable platform. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-protoc...
Physicists have demonstrated the first “strong and unconditional” #quantum advantage in a photonic platform. Using entangled light reduced the no. of measurements required to characterize a system by a factor of 10^11, and the time from 20 million yrs to 15 min. 🧪⚛️💡 physicsworld.com/a/entangled-...
Entangled light leads to quantum advantage – Physics World
Number of measurements required to learn about the behaviour of a complex, noisy quantum system reduced by a factor of 1011
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October 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Physicists have demonstrated the first “strong and unconditional” #quantum advantage in a photonic platform. Using entangled light reduced the no. of measurements required to characterize a system by a factor of 10^11, and the time from 20 million yrs to 15 min. 🧪⚛️💡 physicsworld.com/a/entangled-...