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Taking medication as and when prescribed is crucial for it to have the desired effect. A new RFID-tagged capsule could help ensure that patients are taking their medicine on schedule. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/rfid-tagge...
RFID-tagged drug capsule lets doctors know when it has been swallowed – Physics World
A dissolvable drug capsule uses radiofrequency signals to ensure that people are taking their medication on schedule
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January 15, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Taking medication as and when prescribed is crucial for it to have the desired effect. A new RFID-tagged capsule could help ensure that patients are taking their medicine on schedule. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/rfid-tagge...
We explore the challenges and opportunities of quantum metrology in this podcast sponsored by the UK's National Physical Laboratory. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/pOq650XWKzu
Quantum metrology at NPL: we explore the challenges and opportunities – Physics World
This podcast features Tim Prior and John Devaney of the National Physical Laboratory
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January 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
We explore the challenges and opportunities of quantum metrology in this podcast sponsored by the UK's National Physical Laboratory. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/pOq650XWKzu
BepiColombo reveals how coronal mass ejections reduce cosmic-ray intensity between the Sun and Earth. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/of5T50XWyle
Solar storms could be forecast by monitoring cosmic rays – Physics World
Forbush decrease effect is tracked between the Sun and Earth
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January 14, 2026 at 8:59 AM
BepiColombo reveals how coronal mass ejections reduce cosmic-ray intensity between the Sun and Earth. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/of5T50XWyle
The debris from high-energy particle collisions sometimes includes a surprising ingredient: light atomic nuclei with binding energies that seem far too low for such extreme conditions. Researchers in the #ALICE team @cern.bsky.social have now figured out why. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/cern-team-...
CERN team solves decades-old mystery of light nuclei formation – Physics World
ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable conditions
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January 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The debris from high-energy particle collisions sometimes includes a surprising ingredient: light atomic nuclei with binding energies that seem far too low for such extreme conditions. Researchers in the #ALICE team @cern.bsky.social have now figured out why. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/cern-team-...
New calculations involving anyons provide deeper insights into an exotic material in which superconductivity and magnetism can coexist. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/pfp250XVXyR
Anyon physics could explain coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism – Physics World
Calculations explain curious properties of some 2D materials
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January 13, 2026 at 9:04 AM
New calculations involving anyons provide deeper insights into an exotic material in which superconductivity and magnetism can coexist. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/pfp250XVXyR
Scientists and engineers are often good innovators and inventors - but being an entrepreneur requires very different skills. Honor Powrie wonder whether it's possible to teach entrepreneurship to those, like her, who don't have enough business courage and acumen. 🧪⚛️
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Can entrepreneurship be taught? An engineer’s viewpoint – Physics World
Honor Powrie wonders what skills she’d need to be an entrepreneur
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January 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Scientists and engineers are often good innovators and inventors - but being an entrepreneur requires very different skills. Honor Powrie wonder whether it's possible to teach entrepreneurship to those, like her, who don't have enough business courage and acumen. 🧪⚛️
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Shapiro steps – jumps in the voltage–current characteristic of a Josephson junction – have been observed for the first time in ultracold gases. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/6ezv50XVhB8
Shapiro steps spotted in ultracold bosonic and fermionic gases – Physics World
Research could lead to a standard for chemical potential
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January 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Shapiro steps – jumps in the voltage–current characteristic of a Josephson junction – have been observed for the first time in ultracold gases. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/6ezv50XVhB8
Researchers uncover a fundamental, universal limit to how precisely time can be measured in noisy, fluctuating systems. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/cracking-t...
Cracking the limits of clocks: a new uncertainty relation for time itself – Physics World
Physicists uncover a universal limit on timekeeping precision, proving that anything from heartbeats to ocean waves can be a clock – but none escape the noise
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January 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Researchers uncover a fundamental, universal limit to how precisely time can be measured in noisy, fluctuating systems. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/cracking-t...
A new microscope that simultaneously measures forward- and backward-scattered light from a sample could be used to image both micro- and nanoscale objects at the same time. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/bidirectio...
Bidirectional scattering microscope detects micro- and nanoscale structures simultaneously – Physics World
New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move
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January 9, 2026 at 11:03 AM
A new microscope that simultaneously measures forward- and backward-scattered light from a sample could be used to image both micro- and nanoscale objects at the same time. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/bidirectio...
Quantum information theory could help solve one of the biggest challenges in physics: developing a viable theory of quantum gravity. The PI's Alex May explains in this podcast. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/tUhn50XTsoj
Quantum information theory sheds light on quantum gravity – Physics World
Our podcast guest is Alex May of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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January 8, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Quantum information theory could help solve one of the biggest challenges in physics: developing a viable theory of quantum gravity. The PI's Alex May explains in this podcast. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/tUhn50XTsoj
CMS at CERN has made the first measurements of the quantum properties of a family of three recently-discovered “all-charm” tetraquarks. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/U90I50XTlXs
Tetraquark measurements could shed more light on the strong nuclear force – Physics World
CMS Collaboration focuses on a family of three all-charm exotic hadrons
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January 8, 2026 at 11:48 AM
CMS at CERN has made the first measurements of the quantum properties of a family of three recently-discovered “all-charm” tetraquarks. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/U90I50XTlXs
⚛️🧪Moon-Ho Jo, who leads Korea's new IBS Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids, says breakthroughs in basic science are needed to bring 2D materials into next-generation semiconductors - and he's got ideas for how to make it happen.
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Korea’s long-term strategy for 2D materials: fundamental science is the secret of success – Physics World
An interview with Moon-Ho Jo, director of the IBS Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids in Korea
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January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
⚛️🧪Moon-Ho Jo, who leads Korea's new IBS Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids, says breakthroughs in basic science are needed to bring 2D materials into next-generation semiconductors - and he's got ideas for how to make it happen.
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Airborne wind energy devices can do things that terrestrial wind turbines can't, but keeping them safe, stable and aloft is challenging. Researchers in Italy say that reinforcement learning algorithms could be just the breakthrough the technology needs. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/reinforcem...
Reinforcement learning could help airborne wind energy take off – Physics World
Machine learning technique teaches power-generating kites to extract energy from turbulent airflows more effectively, boosting their efficiency
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January 7, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Airborne wind energy devices can do things that terrestrial wind turbines can't, but keeping them safe, stable and aloft is challenging. Researchers in Italy say that reinforcement learning algorithms could be just the breakthrough the technology needs. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/reinforcem...
Researchers have created an organic LED that can generate left- or right-handed circularly polarized light from the same form of light-emitting molecule. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/organic-le...
Organic LED can electrically switch the handedness of emitted light – Physics World
A new type of OLED can generate left- or right-handed circularly polarized light from just one form of light-emitting molecule
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January 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Researchers have created an organic LED that can generate left- or right-handed circularly polarized light from the same form of light-emitting molecule. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/organic-le...
Sound waves can make small objects hover in the air. But if you try it with more than one object at once, the objects clump together. This plays havoc with applications, but physicists @istaresearch.bsky.social have now found a way around it. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
Physicists overcome 'acoustic collapse' to levitate multiple objects with sound – Physics World
Finding could have applications in acoustic-levitation-assisted 3D printing, mid-air chemical synthesis and micro-robotics
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January 7, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Sound waves can make small objects hover in the air. But if you try it with more than one object at once, the objects clump together. This plays havoc with applications, but physicists @istaresearch.bsky.social have now found a way around it. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
The boundary between liquid and solid phases may not be as clear-cut as previously believed. This new state of matter is a hybrid of both, and the scientists who discovered it say it could have applications in catalysis and other thermally-activated processes. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-hybrid...
January 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The boundary between liquid and solid phases may not be as clear-cut as previously believed. This new state of matter is a hybrid of both, and the scientists who discovered it say it could have applications in catalysis and other thermally-activated processes. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/new-hybrid...
Physicists @heriotwattuni.bsky.social have succeeded in routing and teleporting entangled states of light between two four-user #quantum networks – an important milestone in the development of scalable quantum communications. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/quantum-ph...
Quantum photonics network passes a scaling-up milestone – Physics World
Fibre-based circuit functions as a programmable router for entangled light
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January 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Physicists @heriotwattuni.bsky.social have succeeded in routing and teleporting entangled states of light between two four-user #quantum networks – an important milestone in the development of scalable quantum communications. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/quantum-ph...
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The icy moons of the outer Solar System, with their hidden underground oceans, entice us with their great potential for alien life. My new article for @physicsworld.bsky.social explores what makes these moons so exciting and the spacecraft armada heading to them. physicsworld.com/a/exploring-...
Exploring the icy moons of the solar system – Physics World
Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to find out
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January 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The icy moons of the outer Solar System, with their hidden underground oceans, entice us with their great potential for alien life. My new article for @physicsworld.bsky.social explores what makes these moons so exciting and the spacecraft armada heading to them. physicsworld.com/a/exploring-...
A lightweight, easily wearable, adhesive patch-based sensor continuously monitors and interprets foetal movement patterns. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/band-aid-l...
Band-aid like wearable sensor continuously monitors foetal movement – Physics World
An adhesive pressure–strain sensor system that can detect reduced foetal movement could provide a promising new tool for maternity care
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January 5, 2026 at 2:14 PM
A lightweight, easily wearable, adhesive patch-based sensor continuously monitors and interprets foetal movement patterns. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/band-aid-l...
A new measurement by CERN’s ATLAS Collaboration has strengthened evidence that the masses of fundamental particles originate through their interaction with the Higgs field. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/1fGa50XNfM1
Higgs decay to muon–antimuon pairs sheds light on the origin of mass – Physics World
CERN’s ATLAS experiment confirms previous observation by CMS
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December 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A new measurement by CERN’s ATLAS Collaboration has strengthened evidence that the masses of fundamental particles originate through their interaction with the Higgs field. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/1fGa50XNfM1
What happens to entanglement in real #quantum computers? When physicists @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social started to explore this, they found that the calculus of what can be done, and what can be harnessed, needs a serious retooling. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/real-world...
Real-world quantum entanglement is far from an unlimited resource – Physics World
New study shows that operational limits redefine the cost and convertibility of entanglement
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December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What happens to entanglement in real #quantum computers? When physicists @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social started to explore this, they found that the calculus of what can be done, and what can be harnessed, needs a serious retooling. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/real-world...
A deep-learning model that automates target delineation during brachytherapy treatment planning could reduce reliance on operator experience, increase workflow efficiency and improve contouring consistency. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/hybrid-dee...
Hybrid deep-learning model eases brachytherapy planning – Physics World
The BCTVNet neural network provides accurate and rapid target volume delineation for cervical cancer brachytherapy
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December 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A deep-learning model that automates target delineation during brachytherapy treatment planning could reduce reliance on operator experience, increase workflow efficiency and improve contouring consistency. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/hybrid-dee...
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Great to see our expert Prof Francesco Poletti feature in @physicsworld.bsky.social this month.
Francesco and his team developed a new type of optical fibre that was recognised as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year for 2025.
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Francesco and his team developed a new type of optical fibre that was recognised as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year for 2025.
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Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year in physics for 2025 revealed – Physics World
A molecular superfluid, high-resolution microscope and a protein qubit are on our list
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December 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Great to see our expert Prof Francesco Poletti feature in @physicsworld.bsky.social this month.
Francesco and his team developed a new type of optical fibre that was recognised as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year for 2025.
Read more 👇
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Francesco and his team developed a new type of optical fibre that was recognised as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year for 2025.
Read more 👇
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Congratulations to researchers at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for winning the Physics World 2025 Breakthrough of the Year for their pioneering work on 2D metals. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/Eofh50XLrJG
Pioneers of 2D metals win the Physics World 2025 Breakthrough of the Year – Physics World
Researchers describe their success with five metals as the “tip of the iceberg”
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December 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Congratulations to researchers at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for winning the Physics World 2025 Breakthrough of the Year for their pioneering work on 2D metals. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/Eofh50XLrJG
An aerogel material that is more than 99% transparent to light and is an excellent thermal insulator has been developed by Ivan Smalyukh and colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/jEuk50XLnzN
Transparent and insulating aerogel could boost energy efficiency of windows – Physics World
Tiny pores block heat while transmitting light
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December 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
An aerogel material that is more than 99% transparent to light and is an excellent thermal insulator has been developed by Ivan Smalyukh and colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/jEuk50XLnzN