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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 06/08/2026

PS: If you wonder what editors do all day... Finding the names of the women in this photo so we could put them in the caption took some digging, but it's all in a day's work ⛏️ PPS: Erwin Schrödinger is doing nothing here to beat the allegations about physicist dress sense

A 1933 photograph taken at Stockholm railway station featuring Nobel Prize winners and their family members. Left to right: Annie Heisenberg (mother), Anny Schrödinger (wife), Florence Dirac (mother), Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger. Schrödinger is wearing a coat with a fur collar and knickerbockers.

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 06/08/2026

Our August issue: 💡GaN-based light-emitting diodes 🛣️Universal bounds on entropy production from fluctuating coarse-grained trajectories 🔬Ultrahigh spatiotemporal resolution THz scanning tunnelling microscopy ☢️Radioactive molecules as laboratories of fundamental physics www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics August 2026 cover, inspired by trajectories in phase space

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 09/07/2026

Check out our July issue! 🌊Transitions of the Atlantic Ocean circulation ⚫Black-hole thermodynamics 🌀Vortices and solitons in polariton superfluids and condensates 🧲⚡Cross-probing van der Waals multiferroics 🎂40 years of AFM ➕Comments and Tools of the Trade www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics cover depicting dynamical systems via a composition of attractors in shades of blue and red

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 09/06/2026

How is it June already⁉️ ✨Reconfigurable & programmable integrated topological photonics ✨Transparent conducting electrodes for perovskite–Si tandem solar cells ✨Chaotic photonics in microresonators ✨Physics & chemistry perspectives on 3 unsolved problems in glasses www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics June cover, based on the ray trajectories inside a photonic microresonator

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 05/06/2026

Exploring decolonizing the curriculum using Six Thinking Hats Matthew Mears, Bianca Sala & Zoey Wyllie argue that a formal approach can provide psychological safety to help think about how to decolonize the physics curriculum, and share their experiences of doing so www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Table of example prompt questions to explore the idea of decolonizing the physics curriculum, based around the Six Thinking Hats framework

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 12/05/2026

Our Reviews in May: ⚪Physics of sphere packings 🌀nterpreting coherence in wall turbulence 🌡️Material insights on electronic transport of charge and heat from first principles 🧲Laser-produced plasmas as probes of astrophysical magnetic fields 😍cover by Susanne Harris www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics May cover depicting a fruit stall at a market, selling spherical fruits and vegetables in ordered pyramids and disordered packings

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 09/04/2026

Our April issue is live! 🩺Upconverting nanoparticles for biomedical applications 📊Metrics for spin-based computing 📏Quantum geometry and the hidden scales in materials 🦄Sub-diffraction confinement in dielectrics with narwhal wavefunctions www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics April cover, which uses ice skaters as an artistic way to illustrate spin networks

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 10/03/2026

In our March issue: 🖥️Simulating fermions with a digital quantum computer 🕸️Collective dynamics on higher-order networks 🍩Simulating topological order on quantum processors 🌈Terahertz 2D coherent spectroscopy for probing & controlling multicorrelations in quantum matter www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics March 2026 cover, featuring an abstract design based on the structure of a tree graph used for ancilla-free encoding

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 24/02/2026

In our February issue: ✨Superconductivity in infinite-layer and Ruddlesden–Popper nickelates 🤔The Yang–Mills Millennium problem 📊Global tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data 🔋Opportunities & challenges of quantum batteries www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics cover, artistically depicting quantum batteries as a glowing battery in a tangle of string reminiscent of the symbol for an atom, being played with by a black cat

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 08/01/2026

Happy new year!🎆 In our January issue: ▶️◀️Quantum correlation behaviour in single-molecule junctions 🌡️Warm dense matter studies with XFELs 🥶Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials ⛔🛣️Limitations & possibilities of topological photonics www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics cover illustrating the topological boundary between two different photonic crystals.

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 02/12/2025

Our December editorial looks at what we've done this year and shows off our beautiful covers 🤩 Which is your favourite? (We can't choose just one) Big thanks to Susanne Harris, Sam Whitham, Richard Tibbitts & Neil Smith for the cover designs www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Array of all the Nature Reviews Physics covers from 2025

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 02/12/2025

Our December reviews: ⚡Balancing innovation & safety in FLASH radiotherapy ☀️Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar & nuclear physics 🏍️Ultrafast physics with structured light 📋Protocols & tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics December 2025 cover, featuring a stylized snowflake and structures of 2D materials

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 06/11/2025

🎉We're celebrating 30 years of exoplanets around Sun-like stars, with a Technical Review, Comment, Q&A & Editorial🌟 ➕ Artificial gauge fields in photonics Timescales in mechanobiology Radiacoustic imaging The nuclear–AI analogy Sustainability in particle accelerators www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics cover in the style of a vintage sci-fi paperback complete with creases at the edges, depicting an the view from a moon of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 03/10/2025

Our October Editorial: Go to talks by women ⚛️🧪 ➡️ Free to read here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

"Most people — regardless of gender — are not consciously sexist. Very few would scan a conference programme and actively decide not to attend talks by women ... There’s no reason to skip a talk by a woman, yet that’s what seems to happen."

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 03/10/2025

Our October issue is live!🎉 🦠Bacterial colonies 💠Point defects in metal halide perovskites ⬆️⬇️Platforms for Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids 💻Tensor networks for quantum computing ✨A condmat conference w/ all female speakers 🥳50 yrs of spin glass theory 🏅Nobel Prize stories www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics October 2025 cover, featuring an abstract floral design in autumnal colours inspired by bacterial colonies

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 05/09/2025

In our September issue: ✨Carbon-nanomaterial-enabled THz technology 💧Structure & flow of low-dimensional water 🫗Atomistic solid–fluid surface free energy & tension 🎲Applications of certified randomness 🌀Preserving OAM in scattering media ➕Comments & Tools of the Trade www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics September 2025 cover, showing an artist's impression of a carbon nanotube

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 29/08/2025

A Friday afternoon read from our archive: AI is no substitute for having something to say (Editorial, March 2024) 🧪 ⚛️ #AcademicSky 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Quote from the article: "If you’re unconvinced, do this experiment: ask a GenAI to write an essay or an opinion piece on a certain topic. It will do so by stitching together a few more-or-less logically connected platitudes. This clichéd nothingness is unsurprising because the AI system has no agency in writing or otherwise: it simply doesn’t have ‘opinions’ or a “narrative agenda of its own”4. You might try to be more prescriptive in the prompt to push towards a certain perspective — perhaps there is such a thing as ‘the prompt’; the right way of describing the piece you had in mind so that the GenAI outputs it exactly. You have just given the AI system agency to write. But isn’t that prompt precisely the clear articulation of your idea? That’s your agency. Writing that perfect prompt is the hard part; the rest is dressing, whether you do it with or without help from GenAI."

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 11/08/2025

Our August issue: 🌈Topological rainbow trapping 💧Drop friction 💡Multidimensional photonic computing 🥶Quantum Mpemba effects PLUS: 🏖️Scientists need a break too 👩‍🔬Making women visible in quantum history 🔓Open-source initiatives for quantum computing 🔨& Tools of the Trade www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics August cover, with a box of rainbow-glazed donuts serving as an artistic representation of topological rainbow trapping

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 08/07/2025

In July: 👩‍💻Physics needs research software engineers ⚡Energy consumption of quantum circuits 💫Supercomputing & exascale simulation for fusion 🖥️Shifting sands of hardware & software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations 🥪Exciton condensate in vDW layered materials www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

The cover of this issue illustrates the evolution of computing systems used by physicists

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 11/06/2025

World View: Art as a catalyst for promoting sustainable research ⚛️🧪 Saki the Artist shares how making art with plastic waste from @istaresearch.bsky.social helped bridge the gap between sustainability knowledge and action: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 📸: Jürgen Hofmann

Saki the Artist wearing a ball gown made of upcycled nitrile gloves. Photo: Jürgen Hofmann

An elegant chandelier, which as you look more closely you realize is made of pipettes. Photo: Jürgen Hofmann

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 10/06/2025

Check out our June issue! 💥Neutrinos from explosive transients at the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy 🪟Yielding and plasticity in amorphous solids ✨Nonlocal metamaterials and metasurfaces 💻Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

The Nature Reviews Physics June 2025 cover, featuring foam on a rainbow background

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 20/05/2025

🥳Happy 150th birthday to the Metre Convention!🎂 How do you know how long a metre is?📏 Because of global cooperation to set a standard — starting from the Metre Convention in 1875 Shanay Rab & Richard Brown explain why we still need this kind of collaboration rdcu.be/emM59 ⚛️ #worldmetrologyday

"Global agreement on measurement systems, and specifically the size of the measurement units that we use today, is effective because it is universally recognized."

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 12/05/2025

Our May issue is out!⚛️ ✨Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate ✨First-principles determination of spin–orbit coupling parameters in 2D materials ✨Photogalvanic effects in non-centrosymmetric halide perovskites 📰Editorial: Scientists are workers www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

The cover of this issue illustrates spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional materials.

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 07/04/2025

Our April review articles: 🏜️Barren plateaus in variational quantum computing 🍩Fast ions mitigate turbulence & enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas 🕸️Network renormalization 🍃Quantum computing for nonlinear differential equations & turbulence 🐈cover: Neil Smith www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics April 2025 cover, showing cats playing in a physics lab

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 07/03/2025

Our March issue is live! 🐝Mechanisms of insect respiration 🥶Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration 🤖Physics-driven learning for inverse problems in QCD 🗣️Comments on the Cold War & quantum education, and intersectionality & emergence ➕more! www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics cover based on historical diagrams of the respiratory system of insects

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 07/02/2025

If you need a break from the news, why not see how many physics-inspired details you can spot in our February cover? Thanks again to Neil Smith for the 👻 cover illustration

A sepia-coloured drawing of a late 19th/early 20th century seance, with several physics-inspired details.

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 06/02/2025

Our February issue is live! 🛻Phonon-limited electronic transport through 1st principles 🛣️Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics 🖥️Benchmarking quantum computers 🌈Precision isotope-shift spectroscopy for new physics searches & nuclear insights 🤩cover by Neil Smith www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics cover, depicting a Victorian seance with physics-inspired elements, including a prominent levitating frog

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 08/01/2025

Our January issue is live! 🤖Machine learning for the physics of climate ⚛️Physics of exotic nuclei 💪The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids 🛝Sliding van der Waals polytypes 🦸Hydride superconductivity is here to stay 🐈‍⬛Bringing quantum physics to new generations www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

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