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First plasma at the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak

First plasma for upgraded UK spherical tokamak

Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak will aim to demonstrate plasma performance that could be scaled up to a fusion reactor

Astronomers propose telescope to monitor Betelgeuse dimming

The Betelgeuse Scope concept would use twelve off-the-shelf 10 cm-aperture telescopes to provide detailed, nightly observations of the supergiant star

Net-zero carbon target in UK will require national approach to materials science, says report

Henry Royce Institute calls for government investment to boost materials science in the country and support the use of low-carbon technology

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez bag the Nobel Prize for Physics

Trio share the 2020 prize for work on black holes

Optical tweezer pioneer Arthur Ashkin dies aged 98

Ashkin shared the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work using light to trap microscopic objects

Cooling towers for the ATLAS detector at CERN

CERN’s emissions equal to a large cruise liner, says report

Lab’s first public Environment Report details the status of CERN’s environmental footprint and outlines some objectives to reduce it in the coming years

Research updates

2D materials grow directly on optical fibres

New hybrid might find applications in optoelectronic devices

Dissolving microneedles could extend access to skin-cancer treatment

A water-soluble microneedle array improves the effectiveness and efficiency of photodynamic therapy

Quantum coherence turns up the heat on Maxwell’s demon

Spikes in waste heat could be a problem for quantum devices

New �?femtosecond streaking’ method makes quick and easy measurements on light

High-speed electronics and plasma physics could benefit from simple technique

Do colliding neutron stars or supernovae produce heavy elements?

Conflicting papers offer evidence for both hypotheses

Graphene oxide microbubbles are near-perfect microlenses

Tiny structures are made using ultrashort laser pulses

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Optical microscopy – how small can it go?

Anna Demming reports on techniques that get around the diffraction limit

Air-breathing rocket engines: the future of space flight

UK firm Reaction Engines hopes to revolutionize space access with a new class of propulsion system for reusable vehicles, as Oliver Nailard explains

Helen Gleeson with her former PhD student Devesh Mistry

New auxetic material stretches the limits

Helen Gleeson describes a new auxetic material that gets thicker when stretched due to changes at the molecular level

How computational modelling is transforming medicine

Computational modelling is sparking breakthroughs in epidemiology and other medical fields, as Sam Vennin explains

Has the COVID-19 lockdown changed Earth’s climate?

Dramatic drops in air pollution offer scientists a rare opportunity to study its links with climate and weather. But as Kate Ravilious discovers, it's a complicated connecti...

Doomsday Clock ticks closer to disaster

The Doomsday Clock monitors how close humankind is to global catastrophe. Rachel Brazil talks to physicists about its current setting

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Is anybody there – science and the supernatural

Chris Holt considers the science behind the supernatural

The physics of giant pumpkins, the world’s smallest boat

Excerpts from the Red Folder

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LIGO–Virgo announces �?bumper crop’ of gravitational-wave detections

Physicists have analysed 39 events from detectors’ third run

Physics in the pandemic: �?This coronavirus has created an employment crisis across the country’

Meenu Stephen, a newly qualified medical physicist, describes the difficulties of looking for and starting a new job during lockdown

Don’t go boiling mad when you discover these scientific secrets to perfect pasta!

On World Pasta Day, find out how to prepare perfect pasta while saving on fuel

Physics in the pandemic: ‘Moving the International Physicists’ Tournament online was challenging’

David Collomb describes how a popular competition for physics students went virtual, with a team from Russia emerging as the overall winner

Analysis

US heads to the polls in an election focused on science

From dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic to stimulating industries of the future, science policy has played a larger role than usual in next week’s US election

RadCalc innovations reinforce the benefits of independent QA

LAP is majoring on functional and commercial innovation with the roll-out of automated 3D dose verification and a new subscription licensing model for its RadCalc QA software

Hypofractionation: pushing the boundaries of MLC performance

A German research collaboration is pursuing an ambitious development roadmap to realize a next-generation multileaf collimator

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