Editorials in 2025

Social connections can unlock opportunities that are advantageous to careers in physics. However, this resource is unevenly distributed, and its benefits can’t always overcome the negative effects of societal stereotypes and biases.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”.

Two decades ago this month, Nature Physics published its first issue. We reflect on the past and look into the future.

The first direct observation of gravitational waves occurred on 14 September 2015. We look back at ten years of gravitational wave science.

We highlight how an abstract piece of condensed-matter physics — the fractional quantum Hall effect — may be ideally placed to implement quantum computers.

It’s never too early to plan for a regular dose of physics during your vacation. If you are looking for inspiration, we have some hidden physics gems for you.

This month, we publish three articles reporting breakthroughs in different areas of quasicrystal research.

This month, we celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention and look to the future of metrology.

This month, we publish a Comment detailing the proportion of papers published in Nature Physics that have a last author who is a woman. Here, we present our internal data and outline our response and commitments for the future.

Following International Women’s Day, we draw inspiration from trailblazing women physicists from history and ask how the physics community can accelerate the closing of the gender gap.

We highlight recent developments at the journal, with new editors joining the team and the roll-out of a platform to facilitate the peer review of code.

To kick off the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, we highlight recent progress in the use of quantum simulators to tackle problems in high-energy physics and cosmology.