Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/31
Tushna Commissariat
{"title":"Quantum leap","authors":"Tushna Commissariat","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/31","url":null,"abstract":"From building hybrid architectures to tackling complex fundamental questions, quantum physicist Mauro Paternostro outlines the vast potential on offer from the quantum technology landscape.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"147 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/01
{"title":"Record-breaking cicadas","authors":"","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/01","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers at Georgia Tech in the US have found that cicadas are the smallest animal to create a jet of urine.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141550990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/37
Ian Randall
{"title":"Hidden variables","authors":"Ian Randall","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/37","url":null,"abstract":"How well do you know your quantum physics? Find out with this fun, cryptic word search, created by Ian Randall. All answers are hidden in the grid vertically, horizontally or diagonally, with no letters skipped.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141507874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/27
David Pye
{"title":"Trick of the light","authors":"David Pye","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/27","url":null,"abstract":"A response to Laura Hiscott’s March Lateral Thoughts article, which described how the tiny mirrors on a disco ball act like pinhead mirrors, allowing us to view multiple reflected images of the Sun.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141507875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/15
Michael Banks
{"title":"Largest ever astronomical camera heads for Chile","authors":"Michael Banks","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/15","url":null,"abstract":"Scientists and engineers have announced the completion of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) – the largest camera ever built.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"794 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/24
Brian Gray
{"title":"Nuclear safety","authors":"Brian Gray","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/24","url":null,"abstract":"A response to the February feature by Robert P Crease about the Reed Research Reactor, which is unique in being the only nuclear reactor in the US run by undergraduate students.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/21
Steve Brierley
{"title":"An error-free quantum future","authors":"Steve Brierley","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/21","url":null,"abstract":"Steve Brierley argues that quantum computers must implement comprehensive error-correction techniques before they can become fully useful to society.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/19
Michael Banks
{"title":"Brazil joins CERN at last","authors":"Michael Banks","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/19","url":null,"abstract":"Brazil has become the first country from the Americas to join the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/23
Robert P Crease, Jennifer Carter, Gino Elia
{"title":"Quantum friendship","authors":"Robert P Crease, Jennifer Carter, Gino Elia","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/23","url":null,"abstract":"“Wigner’s friend” is a curious thought experiment that has stumped physicists and philosophers for more than 60 years. Robert P Crease, Jennifer Carter and Gino Elia advise on how to resolve this conundrum.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}
Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/14
Peter Gwynne
{"title":"US astronomers slam cuts to Chandra X-ray Observatory","authors":"Peter Gwynne","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/14","url":null,"abstract":"X-ray astronomers in the US have begun a campaign to save the Chandra X-ray Observatory from budget cuts that would effectively end the mission.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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}