Nominations matter - Nature Physics The information contained in the nomination process for the Nobel Prize highlights the ever-changing meaning of scientific recognition.

In our unfortunately-belated March issue, we have a Comment by Chiara Mingarelli that addresses the historic patterns of nominations to the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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The 2026 Physics Education Research Conference (#PERC) will take place on July 22-23 in Pasadena, CA. Learn more and submit a parallel proposal by the March 16th deadline. ow.ly/kTvm50YoAPe #PhysicsEducation #PhysicsResearch #PERConference2026

Structure by exclusion - Nature Physics One hundred years ago, Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac worked out how fermions distribute across the quantum states available to them. Their intuition laid the statistical foundation for the study of syst...

Our February editorial celebrates 100 years of Fermi-Dirac statistics.

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Our January issue is out!

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In it, we feature an editorial on altermagnetism, a Comment about traceable metrics for protein folding, and plenty of exciting research.

Interplay of orbital angular momentum and chirality by Dongjin Oh, Hendrik Bentmann, and Riccardo Comin.

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Highlighting two Perspectives that we published late in 2025.

"Challenges and opportunities in orbitronics" by Shunsuke Fukami, Kyung-Jin Lee, and Mathias Kläui .

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Nature Physics cover showing funghi in a porous medium with the caption "Funghi in flow"

Our November Issue is out.

Featuring a review on fractional topological states in 2D materials, filamentous funghi that control fluid flows, and reflections on the Nobel Prize.

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Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern - Nature Physics This Review describes the concepts behind generalized quantum Hall effects that can take place without a magnetic field, and summarizes recent experimental manifestations of these phenomena in twisted...

Today we publish a Review on the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect and fractional Chern insulators.

It discusses the underlying theoretical ideas, then moves on to describe recent experiments where these exotic states were observed in moiré materials. ⚛️

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An initiative towards better representation in high-pressure research - Nature Physics Women in High Pressure, a community tackling gender imbalance in high-pressure research, is driving inclusion, visibility and systemic change — so every scientist can thrive, even under pressure.

We recently published a World View on how a group is working to widen inclusion in high-pressure-physics research.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical ...

Many of the articles in the Nature Portfolio collection for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are currently free to read.

You can find it here:
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Happy birthday to us!

This month, Nature Physics turns twenty.

We celebrate with an Editorial that looks at the history and future of the journal, and a Feature that catches up with the authors of the papers from our very first issue.

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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

Want to read a Comment by the three Nobel Laureates on quantum circuits?

Here it is: ($)

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Chiral phonons - Nature Physics Phonons are quanta of the vibrations of the lattice in solids. They can carry angular momentum and allow an emergent chirality. This Perspective defines various types of chiral phonon and classifies the previously observed manifestations of them.

This week we published a Perspective on the rapidly-emerging area of chiral phonons. ($)

There has been some debate about how to define them and how they can be applied. Here, a comprehensive set of definitions are laid out, and prospects for the future discussed.

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Serendipitous signal - Nature Physics The first direct observation of gravitational waves occurred on 14 September 2015. We look back at ten years of gravitational wave science.

Our September issue is live, and our editorial celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the first detection of a gravitational wave.

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Invest in science education research to make science open to all - Nature Physics Attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts expose the need for science education research.

Last week we published a World View that discusses how the current political climate amplifies the need for science education research. ($)

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Fractional computing - Nature Physics We highlight how an abstract piece of condensed-matter physics — the fractional quantum Hall effect — may be ideally placed to implement quantum computers.

Our August issue is out, and in the Editorial we make the case that the fractional quantum Hall effect is an under-rated platform for topological quantum computing.

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This month, we feature a Comment that suggests a way to verify complicated high-pressure measurements of superconductors.

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And our cover art was hand-painted by Lina Segerer, masters student in the ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials group at Göttingen. linasegerer.de

Our July issue is out!

We have two papers reporting observations of Floquet states in graphene, one proof-of-principle implementation of a laser-powered muon source, and an editorial that discusses physics-y places you can go on your vacation.

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Women scientists through the ages - Nature Physics Nature Physics - Women scientists through the ages

Our colleague @ninameinzer.bsky.social reviewed Aristotle's Wife, six plays about women in science. ($)

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Associate or Senior Editor (Quantum Physics/Technology), Nature Communications - Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Milan, Madrid (Hybri job with Springer ... Title:  Associate or Senior Editor (Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies), Nature Communications Location: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York...

Our friends at @natcomms.nature.com are hiring an editor for quantum physics and technology. Can be based in China, the US, Spain, or Italy.

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Our June issue has been out for a little while now, but it features three papers about quasicrystals, a Review on how plasma-based accelerators can be used for positrons, tales of student interactions with LLMs, and much more. ⚛️ #Physics

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Scooping for ground states Nature Physics - More than a hundred quasicrystals have been found so far, but their thermodynamic stability has remained an open question. Extrapolating density functional theory calculations of...

Are quasicrystals thermodynamic ground states? I wrote a News & Views piece for @natphys.nature.com on the work of Baek & coauthors, who used DFT (density functional theory) with clever extrapolation to show that there is strong evidence that two quasicrystals indeed are ground states. rdcu.be/eqRPM

The positron arm of a plasma-based linear collider - Nature Physics The status of plasma-based acceleration of electrons and positrons is discussed, with a focus on developing the positron arm of a plasma-based electron–positron linear collider.

A new Review article online this month. It discusses the current status and future prospects of using plasma-based accelerators for positrons. ($) #Physics ⚛️

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On the 150th anniversary of the Metre Convention, Wynand Louw and Gert Rietveld take the opportunity to consider the future of metrology ($).

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The May issue of Nature Physics is now out.

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In it, we celebrate 150 years since the signing of the Metre Convention, consider quantum Hall effects and altermagnets, and learn how snakes move not on a plane.

Canadian 🇨🇦 early-career physicists, please consider submitting an abstract to this conference. It's a unique opportunity to present your research in a supportive environment and network with other like-minded women+ in physics. The submission deadline is today! ⚛️ 🧪 🎢 👩‍🔬

White circular swirls on a black background represent the feeding flows of single cells as measured via a time lapse.

Our April issue is live! www.nature.com/nphys/volume...

This month we consider the gender breakdown of authorship in Nature Physics, visualise how cells move in feeding currents, and highlight our first physics education research paper.

A closer look at authorship in Nature Physics - Nature Physics This month, we publish a Comment detailing the proportion of papers published in Nature Physics that have a last author who is a woman. Here, we present our internal data and outline our response an...

We also have an editorial where we present some internal data about who is submitting papers to us and what happens to them through the editorial process. And we outline some commitments for the future.

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Underrepresentation of women last authors in Nature Physics - Nature Physics Last-author papers are vital to the career advancement of researchers in many physics subfields. We present data on the underrepresentation of women as last authors in Nature Physics and discuss the i...

Today is an important day for us as a journal. We publish a Comment that analysis the gender of last authors of Nature Physics papers over the last decade ($):

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Many thanks to Alannah Hallas for taking the time to collect the data and write the piece.