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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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Crystal-symmetry-paired spin–valley locking in a layered room-temperature metallic altermagnet candidate
Nature Physics, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02864-2
Spin-split bands and certain lattice symmetries are required to generate the spin currents needed for spintronics applications. Now a layered room-temperature antiferromagnet is shown to exhibit anisotropic spin splitting between valleys paired by a crystal symmetry.
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Direct observation of colloidal quasicrystallization
Nature Physics, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02859-z
Quasicrystals, which lack translational symmetry but display rotational order, are difficult to make. Now an assembly method for the fabrication of colloidal quasicrystals that offers a high degree of controllability and reversibility is reported.
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Yielding behaviour of active particles in bulk and in confinement
Nature Physics, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02843-7
Assemblies of active particles display a range of dynamical phenomena. Simulations now show that the transition of an assembly of active particles from a jammed to a fluidized state is similar to the process of mechanical yielding seen in amorphous solids.
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Good feeders make good neighbours
Nature Physics, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02793-0
The transition from single cells to multicellularity is a key but not well-understood step in animal evolution. A study shows that loosely-organized colonies of attached single-celled organisms can improve feeding through hydrodynamic cooperation.
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Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate <i>Stentor</i>
Nature Physics, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02787-y
How unicellular organisms evolved into multicellular ones is an open question. Now, using unicellular Stentor coeruleus as a model system, the transition between isolated individuals and a coordinated colony is shown to benefit all colony members.