Editorials in 2015

South Korea's march from fast follower to first mover in science and technology.

After two Nobel prizes, the quest to uncover new physics continues at the Kamioka site in Japan.

Looking back at a decade of Nature Physics.

Like London buses, you wait for a Weyl then a few come along at once.

As we celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, there is plenty to look back on and even more to look forward to.

The general theory of relativity, tested time and time again, is a cornerstone of modern physics — but marrying it with quantum mechanics remains a major challenge.

Spin waves look poised to make a splash in data processing.

Physicists are now, as ever, pushing the development of computing technologies. But they're also innovating ways of using them.

In our editorial in the April 2007 issue of Nature Physics we looked at the claim of the first demonstration of a commercial quantum computer — D-Wave's 16-qubit Orion. Eight years later, we ponder whether quantum technologies have really become commercial.

Scientists involved in nuclear research before and after the end of the Second World War continue to be the subjects of historical and cultural fascination.

The UK is investing ambitiously in quantum technologies.

Nature Physics will soon offer the option of double-blind peer review, for which authors and referees are anonymous.