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    Using evidence-based approaches to improve the teaching of physics can help students achieve more and improve equity.

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    A Focus issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kenneth Wilson's work on the renormalization group.

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.

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    15 years ago, topological insulators were discovered, marking the start of a new branch of condensed matter physics.

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    Under extreme pressure, matter can exhibit novel or counter-intuitive phenomena such as superconductivity at unusually high-temperature, unexpected chemical stoichiometries and reaction kinetics, or new material phases.

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 has been awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

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    Disorder and mode interactions are often treated as sources of noise, but can shape the flow of light in interesting and useful ways.

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    The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced ten years ago on the 4th of July 2012 — an event that substantially advanced our understanding of the origin of elementary particles’ masses.

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    The impressive achievements made with quantum gases rely on continuous improvements in the underlying methods.

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    The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for their advances in complex physical systems. In

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    2020 was a year of economic turmoil in many parts of the world — and 2021 promises much of the same.

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