Year in Physics
2024 selections
Cleaning microscopic debris from laser-patterned surfaces 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Applied Surface Science
Caption: Schematic showing cleaning with wet-chemical processing Credit: Alexander Breul
Improving performance in solid-state lithium-ion batteries 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Solid State Ionics
Caption: Charging a solid-state battery Credit: Shirley Reis
Single-photon detectors from superconducting aluminium nanostrips 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Superconductivity
Credit: Hui Zhou Caption: Illustration of the detection process in an SNSPD
Could the Amaterasu particle be a magnetic monopole? 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Physics Letters B
Credit: Utagawa Kunisada Public Domain Caption: Amaterasu, Sun Goddess namesake of the mysterious particle 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Extending fruit shelf life with sustainable nanofibre coatings 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Hybrid Advances
Caption: An unprotected and a coated orange after 13 days. Credit: Poornima Vijayan
Coordinating risk assessments for radiation in outer space 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik
Caption: Astronauts are highly vulnerable to cosmic radiation. Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licensed. Credit: NASA
Combining graphene and nanodiamonds for better microplasma devices 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Fundamental Plasma Physics
Caption: Combining nanodiamonds with laser-induced graphene. Credit: K J Sankaran
Modelling hydrogen fuel tanks for heavy-duty trucks 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Cryogenics
Caption: Refuelling a hydrogen vehicle, Creative Commons 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) licensed Credit: Ogidya
Cells grown in microgravity show 3D structures that could be used in medicine 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Life Sciences in Space Research
Caption: An illustration shows an astronaut on the Artemis III mission planned for 2026. Credit: NASA 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Agricultural waste could help to clean polluted water 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Applied Surface Science Advances Caption: Rice husks are a natural biosorbent Credit: Green (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Investigating plasma deviations inside nuclear fusion reactors 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Fundamental Plasma Physics
Caption: Plasma confined inside a tokamak Credit: Xiang Gao et. al. This file has been extracted from another file, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85521357 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
“Glitches” of rapidly spinning neutron star pulsars can be a source of gravitational waves 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Astroparticle Physics
Caption: An illustration of a pulsar neutron star’s interior erupting through its crust Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ S. Wiessinger
Improving fingerprint detection with carbon-coated nanoparticles 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Hybrid Advances Caption: Powders from new nanomaterial can produce highly detailed fingerprint images Credit: Photo by George Prentzas 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く on Unsplash 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Improving Maglev performance with machine learning 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
Caption: Measuring levitation and lateral forces Credit: Erkan Ozkat
New Chemical Synthesis Technique Could Improve Solar Cell Efficiency 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Organic Electronics
Caption: The polyelectrolyte layer (PFN-NDI) exchanges ions with its surroundings Credit: Joo Hyun Kim
Einstein’s other theory of gravity could have the recipe to relieve ‘Hubble trouble’ 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Physics of the Dark Universe
Caption: An illustration of distant quasar, supermassive black hole-powered objects that can be used to constrain the parameters of theories of gravity Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Black holes created in mergers carry information about their ancestors 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Astroparticle Physics
Caption: A swirling black hole that hides within the characteristics of the black holes that merged to create it Credit: Robert Lea
Squeezing Schrödinger’s cat may increase quantum sensitivity 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Physics Open
Caption: Neither dead nor alive or maybe both, Schrödinger's cat floats in space, waiting for its box to open and its fate to manifest Credit: Robert Lea
2023 selections
A new approach to classifying supernovae could create a “cosmic library” of their explosions 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Astronomy and Computing
Modelling two-qubit systems could help perfect error correction in quantum computers 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Annals of Physics
New physics revealed by measuring cosmic rays as they bombard Earth 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く Research published in Astronomy and Computing
2022 selections
Understanding traversable wormholes at the heart of dark matter halos 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Annals of Physics
Measuring the one-way speed of light on Earth 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Open
Modelling gravitational waves in non-flat spacetime 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Annals of Physics
Designing a better micron bubble dressing for doggy dermatitis 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Applied Surface Science Advances
Investigating the mysteries of supercooled water 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids X
Using biomarkers for the early detection of breast cancer 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences
Assessing effects of radiation and mitochondrial defects on cancer risk 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences
Characterising biomarkers for bone health assessment 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Photoacoustics
Understanding the matter inside neutron stars 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Letters B
A new model of quantum gravity from the building blocks of grand unified theories 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Open
Research published in Results in Physics
2021 selections
Cosmic voids could reshape gravitational lenses 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Astroparticle Physics
Sterilising insects using X-rays 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Leptoquarks and the physics beyond the Standard Model 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Nuclear Physics B
A quantum approach to a singularity problem 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Nuclear Physics B
Black holes could have ‘hair’ after all 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics of the Dark Universe
A step closer to the mass of dark matter 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics letters B
The hunt for dark matter particles 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Letters B
A new challenger to current cosmological models 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Letters B
Bose-Einstein condensates could benefit from a new model for bosonic equilibration 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Open
Modelling quantum systems with a quantum computer 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Open
Research published in Physics Open
Novel endoscope could be used for deep brain stimulation 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Photoacoustics
Beyond skyrmions: Alternative information carriers for spintronics 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Reports
Muons’ strange behaviour can’t be explained by current physics 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Reports
Investigating the high-energy frontier with future particle accelerators 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Reviews in Physics
Seeing deeper with atmospheric muons: From archaeology to geology 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Reviews in Physics
2020 selections
Assessing the viability of small modular nuclear reactors 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Open
How star formation is ‘quenched’ in galaxies 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in New Astronomy
An early dark energy model could solve an expanding cosmological conundrum 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in New Astronomy
COVID-19: The peril of asymptomatic spread 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
Double or nothing? The quest to observe Higgs boson pairs 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Reviews in Physics
Secrets of the Universe’s most powerful and explosive events 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Reports
‘Bouncing’ gravity could cure cosmology’s singularity headache 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Annals of Physics
Cosmic ray spectra may not be ‘one size fits all’ 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Astroparticle Physics
Solving the quantum conundrum: Uniting quantum and classical physics 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Annals of Physics
Melting heavy quarkonium in extreme conditions 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Reports
Probing the mysteries of dark matter with binary pulsars 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics of the Dark Universe
Research published in Annals of Physics
Traversable wormholes could be more than science fiction 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Annals of Physics
Wheels sink differently on the moon 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Results in Physics
A new family of qubits 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Annals of Physics
EUSO Ballon mission leads the way for UV investigations of the atmosphere at night 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Astroparticle Physics
Muons could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of the Universe 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Reviews in Physics
The Higgs boson quest ain't over till it is over 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Report
Terraforming Mars requires a new framework 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Life Sciences in Space Research
Fractal geometry could help us find aliens 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Results in Physics
Solving the mystery of universal expansion with the Hubble bubble 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Letters B
Answer to the dark matter question may lie through the Higgs portal 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Reports
Rewriting quantum mechanics 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Open
Aerosol particles and their effect on the environment 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Photoacoustics
Probing ultra-strong magnetic fields with ALICE 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Letters B
Energy detectors: The past, present and future of astronomy 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in New Astronomy Reviews
2019 selections
Singularities, Black Holes and Baby Universes: The Legacy of Stephen Hawking 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く The great theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will be remembered for his indomitable courage through disability and his commitment to science communication and education, but his ground-breaking research is his greatest legacy.
When relativity meets quantum chaos 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Open
Neutron star mergers, precious metals and the future of astronomy 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Annals of Physics
Searching for physics beyond the standard model at the LHC 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Reviews in Physics
Laser pulses can measure the health of body tissues 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Photoacoustics
Is our universe ‘fine-tuned’ for life? 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Reports
Processing particle collisions in real time 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Computer Physics Communications
Optimising photodiodes at high temperatures 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Results in Physics
Monitoring microbes with a simple thermometer 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics in Medicine
An expanding cyclic universe 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Letters B
Artificial intelligence can help analyse crystal structures 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Ultramicroscopy
Classifying galaxies with AI and 'people power 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physics Letters B
My shell is bigger than yours 新しいタブ／ウィンドウで開く
Research published in Physica A