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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 1h

As the Earth moves through space, it wobbles, and researchers have now observed this wobble directly with the highest precision yet. This could enable us to test predictions of relativistic effects like the distortion of space-time due to Earth’s rotation.🧪⚛️🔭💡 physicsworld.com/a/optical-gy...

Optical gyroscope detects Earth's rotation with the highest precision yet – Physics World

With further improvements, the instrument could enable direct tests of relativistic effects

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 4h

We produced this infographic about immigrant physics laureates a few years ago. You can find the article here. physicsworld.com/a/more-than-...

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 7h

This year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry has gone to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for developing metal-organic frameworks, which have important applications in many areas of physics as well as chemistry. Congratulations! 🧪⚛️ www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 8h

Treating neurodegenerative diseases is hard because of the blood–brain barrier. Some nanoparticles can get through, but their behaviour is hard to predict. Now, researchers have developed a machine learning-based technique that could help target specific regions. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/machine-le...

Machine learning optimizes nanoparticle design for drug delivery to the brain – Physics World

Predictive model accelerates the development of nanoparticles as potential drug carriers for targeting neurodegenerative diseases

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 1d

Back in 2013, we interviewed one of the newly-announced Nobel laureates in Physics, John Martinis, about his work on quantum computing for our weekly podcast. Listen to it here: physicsworld.com/a/quantum-co... 🧪⚛️ #NobelPrize

Quantum computing: challenges, triumphs and applications – Physics World

Leading experts explain how quantum mechanics could be harnessed to revolutionize computing

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 1d

🚨The 2025 #NobelPrize for Physics goes to John Clark, Michel Devoret & John Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circuit”. More details soon... ⚛️🧪
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John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis win the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics – Physics World

Trio honoured for their work on quantum tunnelling

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 1d

For a bit of history while you wait for the physics #NobelPrize, check out these threads on the 1908 and 1912 physics Nobels, which went to the relatively unknown Gabriel Lippmann and Gustaf Dalén over their much more famous contemporaries. The reasons are fascinating! bsky.app/profile/drml... 🧪⚛️

Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 2d

Ahead of tomorrow’s #NobelPrize announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵

PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1

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A photo of the Matterhorn rising above an Alpine landscape. The colours are a little washed out, but do not appear artificially tinted

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 1d

At PW headquarters, we're all waiting with bated breath for this morning's physics #NobelPrize. If you're doing the same, why not pass the time by reading/arguing with our editor @matindurrani.bsky.social's picks of the 5 most notable physics Nobels this century? physicsworld.com/a/the-top-fi... 🧪⚛️

The top five physics Nobel prizes of the 21st century revealed – Physics World

Matin Durrani counts down the five most significant physics Nobels since 2000

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 2d

Fancy a scientific challenge? Materials science is where the action is, says Honor Powrie, especially if you can find new materials that are technologically sustainable "from cradle to grave". ⚛️🧪

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Is materials science the new alchemy for the 21st century? – Physics World

Honor Powrie pays tribute to the work of materials scientists

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 2d

A perovskite-based detector could create next-generation nuclear medicine scanners that image faster and provide clearer results. The perovskite is also easier to grow and cheaper than existing detector materials. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/perovskite...

Perovskite detector could improve nuclear medicine imaging – Physics World

A lead halide material can detect and image single gamma-ray photons with both high-spatial and high-energy resolution

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 2d

Radioactive atoms in a Bose–Einstein condensate could form a “superradiant neutrino laser” in which the atomic nuclei undergo accelerated beta decay. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/mKQm50X68r8

Radioactive BEC could form a ‘superradiant neutrino laser’ – Physics World

Physicists plan to test idea in the lab

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 5d

How would Bayes’ rule – a technique to calculate probabilities – work in the quantum world? A trio of physicists have a plan. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/afbR50X60Sy

Bayes' rule goes quantum – Physics World

New work could help improve quantum machine learning and quantum error correction

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 5d

What have been the top five physics Nobel prizes of the century? @matindurrani.bsky.social reveals which are the best of the best -- but do you agree or disagree with his choices? ⚛️🧪

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The top five physics Nobel prizes of the 21st century revealed – Physics World

Matin Durrani counts down the five most significant physics Nobels since 2000

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 5d

Studies highlighted at the ASTRO 2025 meeting included examples of innovative radiotherapy techniques and indications, such as the use of radiation to treat non-malignant diseases. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/astro-2025...

ASTRO 2025: expanding the rules of radiation therapy – Physics World

A look at some of the more unconventional applications of radiation therapy reported at the ASTRO 2025 meeting

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 6d

It's early October, so time for a good chat about quirky Nobel prizes from days gone by. And we make a few predictions for this year's award. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/kuMt50X5Cho

The curious history of Nobel prizes: from lighthouses to gravitational waves – Physics World

In this podcast we also make predictions for this year’s physics award

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 6d

Continuing our look at Nobel prizes it's hard to believe were awarded, @drmlharris.bsky.social looks at the work of the Swedish inventor who developed a new technology for lighthouses and later invented the Aga cooker.

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Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him – Physics World

Gustaf Dalén is nowhere near as famous as his contemporaries, but does that make him undeserving of the prize? Margaret Harris investigates

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Institute of Physics @instituteofphysics.bsky.social · 6d

This November, the Royal Institution in London will host two incredible days of talks and discussions with some of the world’s leading minds about quantum's past, present and future - featuring Nobel laureate Prof Anton Zeilinger, Prof Jim Al-Khalili, and more.
Book now 👉 iop.eventsair.com/qst2025/

Image advertising the Quantum Science and Technology event 'The first 100 years; our quantum future' at the Royal Institution, London from 4 to 5 November 2025.

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by kirigami, researchers in Canada and France have designed a parachute that can safely and accurately deliver its payloads when dropped directly above its target. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/SWs850X52tq

Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target – Physics World

New system does not need to drift to avoid turbulence

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 7d

We're starting our countdown to next week's #nobelprize by looking at Nobel prizes you've definitely never heard of - starting with a curious from of colour photography that won in 1908. @drmlharris.bsky.social reveals all. ⚛️🧪

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Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics – Physics World

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for an interference-based method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 7d

Launched at this week’s ASTRO 2025 meeting, Leo Cancer Care's new Grace system delivers conventional X-ray radiation therapy to patients in the upright position. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/leo-cancer...

Leo Cancer Care launches first upright photon therapy system – Physics World

The Grace radiotherapy system delivers conventional X-ray radiation therapy to patients in the upright position

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 8d

An antiferromagnetic manganese–tin nanodot has been switched using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns. It could be useful for making high-density, low power magnetic memories. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/swLx50X4k9h

Antiferromagnets could be better than ferromagnets for some ultrafast, high-density memories – Physics World

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 8d

Could you turn the world's slowest experiment, where a drop of pitch takes 10 years to fall, into a schools outreach project? Find out how physicists at Trinity College Dublin got on when they tried to do just that. ⚛️🧪

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How the slowest experiment in the world became a fast success – Physics World

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 12d

With the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology in its final straight, book your place now at the showpiece IOP event at the historic Royal Institution in central London on 4-5 November. Don't miss out! ⚛️🧪

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Be a part of our quantum celebration – Physics World

Attend our special community celebration that traces the remarkable journey of quantum physics and its transformative potential for the future

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 12d

A curious quantum phenomenon called the Schwinger effect could soon be simulated in the lab, say physicists in Canada. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/NyVT50X2ayw

Schwinger effect appears in a 2D superfluid – Physics World

Physicists model vacuum tunnelling in a simple system

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 12d

Even very small changes in the size and shape of a meniscus can dramatically affect how much wave energy passes through this interface between water and a solid surface. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zY9u50X28yg

Meniscus size and shape affect how liquid waves move through barriers – Physics World

Effect could come in useful for a host of practical applications that call for fluid control

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