Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/17
Robert P Crease
Robert P Crease pays tribute to the science-fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin, who 50 years ago introduced Schrödinger’s famous image into popular culture.
罗伯特-P-克雷斯(Robert P Crease)向科幻小说家乌苏拉-勒奎恩(Ursula K Le Guin)致敬,50 年前,她将薛定谔的著名形象引入了大众文化。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/01
Tim Wogan
Independent teams in China, Europe and the US bring a quantum Internet a step closer after finding ways to swap entanglement between qubits more easily. Tim Wogan reports.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/22
Savan Kharel
Savan Kharel reviews Simulating the Cosmos: Why the Universe Looks the Way It Does by Romeel Davé.
Savan Kharel 评论《模拟宇宙》:Romeel Davé所著的《宇宙为何如此》。
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{"title":"Thinking like a scientist","authors":"Eva Amsen","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/24","url":null,"abstract":"Eva Amsen reviews Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"10 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567785","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}
Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/13
Michael Allen
Papers introducing concepts that have since become common knowledge are often under-cited by researchers, skewing those articles’ true impact.
一些介绍概念的论文后来成为了常识,但却往往没有被研究人员充分引用,从而影响了这些文章的真正影响力。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/05
Sam Jarman
Physicists in the US and Germany have developed a new technique for suppressing instabilities in tokamak fusion reactors.
美国和德国的物理学家开发出一种抑制托卡马克聚变反应堆不稳定性的新技术。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/07
Margaret Harris
Animals flap their wings and fins at a rate determined by the same simple mathematical expression that is valid regardless of the animal’s size or flying style.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/10
Michael Banks
Exoplanet researchers David Charbonneau from Harvard University and Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have won the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/20
Matin Durrani
Peter Higgs, who died in April aged 94, was an elusive figure who liked to stay out of the limelight. But in 2012 he agreed to an audio interview with Physics World editor Matin Durrani, who presents an edited version of it here for the first time and reveals how the meeting came about.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/07/14
Tami Freeman
Speakers at this year’s ESTRO 2024 meeting in Glasgow discussed the potential for upright treatment to increase patient access to radiotherapy, as Tami Freeman reports.
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