{"title":"Nobel 2006: making cosmology a precision science","authors":"Zoe Budrikis","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00988-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00988-9","url":null,"abstract":"20 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"618-618"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nobel 1946: high pressure physics","authors":"May Chiao","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00998-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00998-7","url":null,"abstract":"80 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Percy Williams Bridgman.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"615-615"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nobel 1926: seeing Brownian motion","authors":"Ankita Anirban","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00992-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00992-z","url":null,"abstract":"100 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Jean Baptiste Perrin.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"614-614"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The more things change...","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00999-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00999-6","url":null,"abstract":"As we welcome a new editor to the team, we reflect on how changes to the editorial team shape the content of Nature Reviews Physics.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"609-609"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-026-00999-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nobel 1966: atomic collaboration","authors":"Nina Meinzer","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00996-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00996-9","url":null,"abstract":"60 years ago, the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alfred Kastler.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"616-616"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nobel 1986: electrons make atoms visible","authors":"Lina Johnsen Kamra","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00995-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00995-w","url":null,"abstract":"40 years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"617-617"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physics students learn the ropes","authors":"Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, Zoe Budrikis","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00982-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00982-1","url":null,"abstract":"Could this be the world’s only physics course with a swimming prerequisite?","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"610-611"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating optical frequency comb linewidths using the β-separation line","authors":"Maximilian Prinz","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00985-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00985-y","url":null,"abstract":"Maximilian Prinz explains a technique to estimate the optical linewidth of a frequency comb from phase-noise measurements.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"612-612"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry for tracking trace-level volatile organic compounds","authors":"Olivier Durif","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00990-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00990-1","url":null,"abstract":"Olivier Durif describes how mass spectroscopy can help to detect organic gases at trace levels.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"613-613"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuyan Su, Nicholas Su, Sangwoo Kim, Alexandre Persat, Hagan Bayley, Yujia Zhang
{"title":"Microscale droplets for mechanical measurement and mechanotransduction in artificial and living systems","authors":"Yuyan Su, Nicholas Su, Sangwoo Kim, Alexandre Persat, Hagan Bayley, Yujia Zhang","doi":"10.1038/s42254-026-00977-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-026-00977-y","url":null,"abstract":"Despite advances in the investigation of nanoscopic mechanobiology and the development of macroscale mechanotransduction, methods capable of operating at the microscale remain limited. This Review describes the physical principles and engineering of microscale droplets, including liquid constructs and hydrated polymer (hydrogel) beads, which are emerging as versatile biointerfaces for mechanical measurement and mechanotransduction in living matter. The microscale compositions and mechanical properties of droplets recapitulate key aspects of cellular mechanical responses, enabling non-invasive mechanical detection. Furthermore, droplets can contain stimulus-responsive materials that enable the transduction of mechanical cues into diverse biochemical or bioelectrical outputs. Applications of microscale droplets include cellular force and viscoelasticity sensors deployed in intercellular or intracellular environments, as well as synthetic carriers for controlled drug release and the modulation of biological activities. Microscale droplets can sense and exert mechanical forces in biological environments. This Review examines the physical principles and engineering of liquid and hydrogel droplets as biointerfaces for measuring cellular mechanics and transducing mechanical cues into biochemical and electrical outputs.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"8 10","pages":"640-653"},"PeriodicalIF":46.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149078904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}