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This month, we publish a Comment detailing the proportion of papers published in Nature Physics that have a last author who is a woman. Here, we present our internal data and outline our response and commitments for the future.
In addition to photovoltaics, wind turbines are among the most powerful renewable energy sources. Thorsten Schrader and Frank Härtig outline the challenges for metrology.
Last-author papers are vital to the career advancement of researchers in many physics subfields. We present data on the underrepresentation of women as last authors in Nature Physics and discuss the implications.
Experiments with cold atoms in optical cavities are often limited to discontinuous operation due to reloading requirements. Now, continuous lasing is demonstrated with strontium atoms in a ring cavity, stabilized by atom loss mechanisms.
Snakes are capable of non-planar gaits, such as sidewinding. Now observations of juvenile anacondas reveal another non-planar gait resembling an S shape. Calculations show how topological dynamics of active filaments enable such movements.
Controlled dissipation enables the extraction of equilibrium properties of ultracold one-dimensional gases through the observation of anomalous dynamics.
Second messengers are intracellular signalling molecules that relay environmental changes and prompt cellular responses. Through an information-theory framework coupled with quantitative experiments, the second-messenger molecule cAMP, in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is shown to achieve information transmission rates of up to 40 bits per hour.
Simultaneous spin squeezing and the detection of dynamic fields is challenging as entanglement generation and signal interrogation often interfere. An experiment now demonstrates stable spin squeezing and field tracking in a hot atomic ensemble.
Probing electron–phonon matrix elements in bulk materials is difficult. Now, an all-optical experimental approach is demonstrated that extracts phonon-mode- and electron-energy-resolved electron–phonon matrix elements in the bulk.
Spherical aggregates of mouse stem cells exhibit symmetry breaking by forming an elongated axis. This extension is driven by a recirculating Marangoni-like tissue flow, providing insights into the tissue mechanics underlying embryonic development.
Despite exhibiting ferroelectric features, SrTiO3 fails to display long-range polar order at low temperatures due to quantum fluctuations. An ultrafast X-ray diffraction experiment now probes polar dynamics of this material at the nanometre scale.
Fermi polarons are quasiparticles formed by impurities immersed in a Fermi gas. An experiment in an ultracold fermionic gas now shows how to control their properties with a tunable radio-frequency field.
Placing particles at the interface between immiscible fluids usually enhances emulsification. However, now it is shown that if the particles are ferromagnetic, emulsification is suppressed and a non-planar recoverable interfacial shape develops.
Nodes in a quantum network must be able to interface with photonic qubits as well as perform local quantum computations. The quantum node device presented here is capable of storing quantum information and correcting bit-flip errors.
Superconducting qubits operate at microwave frequencies, but it is much more efficient to transmit information optically. Now, a superconducting qubit has been controlled with an optical signal by using a microwave–optical quantum transducer.
