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  • The design and synthesis of novel materials is the rubric of both haute cuisine and materials physics — and in both there is great pleasure in creating and sharing the results of a new recipe.

    • Paul C. Canfield
    Commentary
  • Welcome to J-PARC, Japan's new accelerator facility.

    Editorial
  • No more presubmission enquiries — please send us your full manuscript.

    Editorial
  • Fraud in science is difficult to spot immediately, but, as high-profile cases show, it does get found out. Tackling plagiarism is at least becoming an easier fight.

    Editorial
  • Nature Physics now requires a statement of authors' contributions to a paper.

    Editorial
  • With the increasingly urgent need to find solutions to the impending energy crisis, there is growing interest within the fusion community in revisiting the concept of the fusion–fission hybrid reactor. But how soon could such reactors be realized, and could they meet the challenges of the coming century?

    • Jeffrey P. Freidberg
    • Andrew C. Kadak
    Commentary
  • It is fifty years since science and the humanities were identified as “two cultures” between which communication had all but ceased.

    Editorial