Physics WorldPub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/35
Katherine Skipper
{"title":"Tackling England’s physics teacher shortage","authors":"Katherine Skipper","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/35","url":null,"abstract":"The shortage of physics teachers in England has led the government to set up a new apprenticeship scheme that it hopes will help encourage more people into the profession. But with high workloads and low pay causing many teachers to quit, Katherine Skipper asks if this latest scheme will be enough to fix the issue.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"346 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141507871","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/13
Michael Banks
{"title":"Peter Higgs dies aged 94","authors":"Michael Banks","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/13","url":null,"abstract":"The Nobel-prize-winning particle theorist was as elusive as the particle that now bears his name, as Michael Banks reports","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513048","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/06
Martijn Boerkamp
{"title":"New ion-trap could help quantum computers to scale up","authors":"Martijn Boerkamp","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/06","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have trapped ions with static magnetic and electric fields instead of an oscillating electromagnetic field, which could make it easier to use ions as building blocks for quantum computers.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"223 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513056","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/08
Isabelle Dumé
{"title":"Sticky materials un-stick themselves in jumps","authors":"Isabelle Dumé","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/08","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers in Germany and the US have found a new explanation for why soft solids stick to surfaces easily but are difficult to remove.","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":"141513058","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/11
Isabelle Dumé
{"title":"New metamaterial could make true one-way glass","authors":"Isabelle Dumé","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/11","url":null,"abstract":"A new optical metamaterial that behaves like a true one-way glass has been proposed by researchers in Finland, the US, Sweden and Greece.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141507873","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/18
Michael Banks
{"title":"Electron-ion collider hits milestone","authors":"Michael Banks","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/18","url":null,"abstract":"The US Department of Energy has given the green light for the next stage of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513047","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/12
Isabelle Dumé
{"title":"New measurements hint at Majorana fermions","authors":"Isabelle Dumé","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/12","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers say they have found evidence for the existence of Majorana fermions in the thermodynamic behaviour of a Kitaev magnet, as Isabelle Dumé reports.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513050","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/22
Farai Mazhandu, Mhlambululi Mafu
{"title":"Africa’s quantum future","authors":"Farai Mazhandu, Mhlambululi Mafu","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/22","url":null,"abstract":"Farai Mazhandu and Mhlambululi Mafu argue that quantum technologies can help propel the continent into a new era.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513060","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/30
Philip Ball
{"title":"‘Quantum plumbing’ at the nanoscale","authors":"Philip Ball","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/30","url":null,"abstract":"Nanofluidics could be used to purify water, generate energy and build nanoscale machines. But when water flows through a carbon nanotube, classical fluid mechanics breaks down, leading to puzzling experimental findings that researchers have attributed to an effect called “quantum friction”, as Philip Ball explains.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513038","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: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/28
Alan Neal
{"title":"Where boffins began","authors":"Alan Neal","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/28","url":null,"abstract":"A response to Rachel Youngman’s January article about the campaign by the Institute of Physics to persuade journalists to drop the term “boffin”, which it deems an outdated term.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141513042","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}