Editorials in 2025

There is a growing push to host women speakers at conferences, but their talks are often less attended than men’s. We call on our readers to look out for — and go to — talks by women.

To celebrate this year’s Ig Nobel Prize, we review some patents that raise a chuckle but are closer to serious research than it may seem at first glance.

As the Northern Hemisphere heads into summer holiday season, we encourage all our readers to properly switch off from work for a while.

Calls to recognize research software engineers are not new — but such professionals are needed now more than ever.

As we launch Journal Clubs and reintroduce Tools of the Trade, we invite research students and postdocs to write for Nature Reviews Physics.

This International Workers’ Day, we reflect on the role of scientists as workers and call on our readers to collaborate in their communities to improve working conditions for scientists.

This April, we reflect on the varied and surprisingly close connection between physics and cats.

Nature Reviews Physics publishes short opinion articles each month. How can you write a compelling one?

The boundaries between science and pseudoscience are not always clear cut, as topics move in and out of the culturally accepted core of science. Rather, science needs to be judged on the merits of its methodology.

The UN has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. We join the celebration with a series to explore how quantum science interacts with society.