On the outskirts of Beijing sits a set of unassuming buildings marked ‘X’, for ‘extreme’. Inside the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF), researchers from all over the world are pushing matter to its limits with extreme magnetic fields, pressures and temperatures, and examining it in new ways with extremely precise resolution in time. One … Read more
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Researchers grew tumours inside a model of gut tissue created using mouse stem cells.Credit: Matthias P. Lutolf et al/Nature “In the last ten years, people spent a lot of time to develop and understand how to … Read more
Few scientists have enjoyed as much fame in recent years as British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, the namesake of the boson that was discovered in 2012, who died on 8 April, aged 94. Peter Higgs: the man behind the God particle It was 60 years ago when Higgs first suggested how an elementary particle of … Read more
In hindsight, it seems prophetic that the title of a Nature paper published on 1 March 1974 ended with a question mark: “Black hole explosions?” Stephen Hawking’s landmark idea about what is now known as Hawking radiation1 has just turned 50. The more physicists have tried to test his theory over the past half-century, the … Read more
In 2020, Ranga Dias was an up-and-coming star of the physics world. A researcher at the University of Rochester in New York, Dias achieved widespread recognition for his claim to have discovered the first room-temperature superconductor, a material that conducts electricity without resistance at ambient temperatures. Dias published that finding in a landmark Nature paper1. … Read more
The world of video production is undergoing a significant transformation, thanks to the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in video generation. This shift is not just a fleeting glimpse into what the future might hold; it’s a dynamic change that’s happening right now, reshaping the way we create and experience movies and videos. With AI, … Read more