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Nature Physics offers news and reviews alongside top-quality research papers in a monthly publication, covering the entire spectrum of physics. Physics addresses the properties and interactions of matter and energy, and plays a key role in the development of a broad range of technologies. To reflect this, Nature Physics covers all areas of pure and applied physics research. The journal focuses on core physics disciplines, but is also open to a broad range of topics whose central theme falls within the bounds of physics.
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Chirality helps malaria parasites reach their target
Nature Physics, Published online: 19 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03142-x
Malaria parasites rapidly glide through host tissues in right-handed spirals. A tilted architecture and asymmetric forces power this chiral motion and help them to transition between different environments.
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Fusion and fission of particle-like chiral nematic vortex knots
Nature Physics, Published online: 15 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03107-0
Topologically protected vortex knots are shown to undergo fusion and fission, with electric pulses acting as a switch between the two processes. This might enable applications in electro-optics and photonics.
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Optimal operation of hole spin qubits
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03106-1
Hole spin semiconductor qubits suffer from charge noise, but now it has been demonstrated that placing them in an appropriately oriented magnetic field can suppress this noise and improve qubit performance.
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A super-conducting diode with ultimate efficiency and noise resilience at 77 K
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03118-x
An electrical method is shown to reliably introduce nonreciprocal behaviour across a Josephson junction made of high-temperature cuprate superconductors, which then, under microwave irradiation, forms a ‘quantum superconducting diode’. The device is magnetic-field-free, works at a temperature of 77 K with a diode efficiency of 100%, and, owing to Shapiro steps that quantize the output voltage, has robust noise-filtering.
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Level the slopes
Nature Physics, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03147-6
Social connections can unlock opportunities that are advantageous to careers in physics. However, this resource is unevenly distributed, and its benefits can’t always overcome the negative effects of societal stereotypes and biases.
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Love hertz
Nature Physics, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03127-w
Despite being derived from the unit of time, the hertz is a unit in its own right. It has remained a much beloved unit since its establishment almost one hundred years ago, as Karen Mudryk recounts.
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The shape of possibility
Nature Physics, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03128-9
The shape of possibility
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The undervaluing of elite women in physics
Nature Physics, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03114-1
Elite women in physics wait longer than men for recognition. Once elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, however, their prominence surges — evidence that their work was undervalued all along.