Engineering articles within Nature Physics

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  • Editorial |

    Publicly funded nuclear fusion laboratories are experiencing competition from the private sector, giving new energy to the field.

  • Comment |

    Modern physics edged mechanics out into the wilds of engineering. But multidisciplinary interest in pattern formation has moved it back into the mainstream, bringing with it interest from other fields — as this summer’s Solvay Workshop demonstrated.

    • Pedro M. Reis
    • , Fabian Brau
    •  & Pascal Damman
  • News & Views |

    The realization of a new topological state using an electrical-circuit approach establishes a flexible scheme that should enable further explorations into uncharted territory and, equally importantly, make experiments with topological states more broadly accessible.

    • Ling Lu
  • Research Highlight |

    • Abigail Klopper
  • Commentary |

    Energy-producing nuclear fusion reactions taking place in tokamaks cause radiation damage and radioactivity. Remote-handling technology for repairing and replacing in-vessel components has evolved enormously over the past two decades — and is now being deployed elsewhere too.

    • Rob Buckingham
    •  & Antony Loving