Happy Birthday to Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a physicist who discovered the first radio pulsars. Bell Burnell used the money from her Breakthrough Prize win to establish a fund to help minority students to become research physicists. Explore its growing impact here: https://ow.ly/mj4m50Zn5Lx #WomeninSTEM

Thank you to the authors, reviewers, and readers helping Materials for Quantum Technology continue to grow. 🎉 Why publish in MQT?: • Journal Impact Factor: 4.4 • Citescore: 5.9 • 8 days median submission to first decision • Rigorous peer review process Learn more: https://ow.ly/qGxl50Zmb9J

Is #AI a breakthrough in lunar crater detection or a technological farce🔭? A new study found that when AI-generated lunar crater catalogues are evaluated by human scientific standards, many of their published performance metrics drop considerably. Find out more here: https://ow.ly/AWpj50Zn5zX #astro

⚛️ In a #quantum breakthrough, advanced simulations of exotic quantum matter are now possible. This is a new method to study fractional quantum Hall systems and anyon behaviour at unprecedented scale & accuracy 👉 Quick overview: https://ow.ly/neo350ZmjMA 📝 Full article: https://ow.ly/8cXZ50ZmjMT

🌈 What a fantastic day at Bristol Pride! Colleagues from across IOP Publishing joined the Pride parade in Bristol this weekend. Thank you to everyone who took part! We're proud to support Pride and help create a culture where everyone feels they can belong. 🏳️‍🌈💙 #Pride #BristolPride #Inclusion

🛎️ Don’t miss this live panel discussion, revealing the unwritten rules of being successful in scientific publishing, with panellists including David Gevaux, Chief Editor of Reports on Progress in Physics (ROPP). 📅 Thursday 23 July 2026 | ⏰ 2 PM BST 👉 Register now: https://ow.ly/7sfj50Zltmp

How will surface acoustic wave technology evolve within the next 10 years? We present a roadmap of this dynamically growing field, which has applications in everything from #optomechanics to #quantum technology. Get the full story here🔗: https://ow.ly/HbAf50ZljNZ #quantumtechnology #materialsscience

🌎 Today is #WorldPopulationDay, an opportunity to draw attention to the urgency and importance of population issues. In honor of this event, we share this #ICYMI: that global human population has already grown too large for Earth to sustainably support at current levels: https://ow.ly/MnQR50Zlj6F

🧪If you're reading this week's #FunPhysicsFriday post on a smartphone, then you now have access to a portable physics lab! This article explores FizziQ, an app that offers an innovative solution to the challenges of experimentation in #physicseducation ⚛️. Find out more 🔗: https://ow.ly/C2j450Zlcz2

By merging human intellect with cutting-edge #AI, researchers have overcome a decades-long stalemate in the field of #complexsystemsphysics! Using Claude, the team has resolved the mathematical conjecture of jamming. Explore this breakthrough in our latest article: https://ow.ly/4HUF50ZjPQA

Struggling with open data requirements? You’re not alone. Our free, 90-minute course gives you practical steps to: • Prepare and document data • Meet funder and journal requirements • Avoid common mistakes when publishing Start #OpenDataExcellence today: https://ow.ly/cQOH50Z7FBp ⚛️

🌈 Colour, creativity and community! Colleagues in our Bristol office created placards and tie-dye designs ahead of this weekend's Pride march. With a Pride quiz still to come, the celebrations continue! Going to Bristol Pride? Look for the IOPP banner and come and say hi!👋🌈 #Pride #BristolPride

🧑‍🔬 Exciting new #physics research from CERN, Switzerland: In this work, researchers used a huge dataset collected with the ATLAS detector to probe top-antitop quark interactions near threshold. 👉 Quick overview: https://ow.ly/fkLy50ZjXC3 📝 Full article: https://ow.ly/bQ6s50ZjXC2

🌿 Get inspired by the latest breakthroughs in sustainable energy and transportation Discover the cutting-edge research presented at the 8th International Conference on Energy Storage and Intelligent Vehicles (ICEIV 2025). 👉 Get open access to the conference proceedings: https://ow.ly/zVYM50ZkzyB

🌎 Combining #AI with physical climate modelling could help researchers predict extreme weather events! Using a deep-learning algorithm and RES techniques, researchers produced the same results as traditional techniques with 1,000x less resources: https://ow.ly/oGRR50ZlbLB #environment Physics World

For the first time, NASA's TESS mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star from its ripples in space-time! Using a technique known as microlensing, researchers found the super-Jupiter known as Gaia23bra b hiding in TESS's data 🔭. Find out more here: https://ow.ly/olpT50ZkPF5 #astronomy

⚛️⏩ How can you fast-forward a quantum simulation? Limits on the speed of quantum algorithms are not quite as rigid as previously thought, according to new #QuantumComputing research from Hong Kong and Beijing 👉 Quick overview: https://ow.ly/Y7EF50ZjXqH 📝 Full article: https://ow.ly/4tLf50ZjXqI

Our Duplicate Review Checker has been shortlisted for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2026 🎉 We're honoured to be recognised among such a strong shortlist of innovative solutions driving progress in scholarly publishing. Congratulations to fellow finalists! #ResearchIntegrity

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Alemayehu Ambaw Tsige to the ERX Editorial Board! Meet the full editorial board: https://ow.ly/5aE950Zjj3h Learn more about ERX: https://ow.ly/5aE950Zjj3h

#OnThisDay, Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born! This American astronomer is best known for discovering the period-luminosity relationship for Cephid variables, also known as Leavitt's Law 🔭. Explore Leavitt's legacy here 🔗: https://ow.ly/Z8rN50Zjq17 #astronomy #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

New #physics research from Korea gives insights into how van der Waals heterostructures manage lattice mismatch at the nanoscale. 🔬 👉 Quick overview: https://ow.ly/9g6950ZjaAb 📝 Full article (open access): https://ow.ly/IkFB50ZjaAa

Today we wish a Happy Birthday to British X-Ray crystallographer William Bragg! Bragg founded the science of #XRaycrystallography with his son, Lawrence, for which they shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. Learn more about the importance of Bragg's discovery here: https://ow.ly/shoc50ZjpQe

🌀 The latest in turbulence research is here. The scientific developments presented at iTi (interdisciplinary Turbulence initiative) 2025 represent the cutting edge of #FluidDynamics. 👉 Read the open access proceedings: https://ow.ly/WYBL50ZjaS3

We understand the challenges #researchers face when trying to get #published. Our comprehensive #guide will support you at every stage. Covering key topics that will help you get published and into the global scientific community. Sign up to get your copy: https://ow.ly/VVzq50Z7VqA

🧑‍🔬 A striking new discovery in #CondensedMatterPhysics: Researchers from the USA have shown that routine lattice flaws can reliably detect topological phases. 👉 Quick overview: https://ow.ly/WqTz50Zjasx 📝 Full article (open access): https://ow.ly/zrsK50Zjasy

How do collisions cause light to condense in solid-state devices? 🌌 Exciting new research from a team in Portugal and the UK explains how light can behave like a quantum fluid in semiconductors. 🧑‍🔬 👉 Quick overview: https://ow.ly/1gss50Zecmm 📝 Go in-depth: https://ow.ly/WUoM50Zecmn

After >50 years of searching, evidence of a powerful wind blowing from Sgr A* has been found 🔭! According to #theoreticalphysics, every black hole should produce wind or jets as they consume materials, but no evidence of this was found in Sgr A* - until now: https://ow.ly/NJ6O50ZhGYq #astrophysics

Standard physics experiments can't hold a candle to this week's #FunPhysicsFriday 🕯️! This activity provides an innovative approach to the "candle under glass" experiment by integrating low-cost Arduino-powered sensors. Discover an exciting experiment here: https://ow.ly/G70e50Zgr2V #physicseducation

Researchers have finally succeeded in imaging the surface structure of MBT ⚛️! This material is sensitive to its environment, making standard techniques impossible to apply. To solve this issue, the team developed a technique that uses a flake of MBT as a protective layer: https://ow.ly/S2oi50Zgqyg

Happy Birthday to Fred Hoyle, English astronomer 🔭! Hoyle is most famous for co-authoring the famous B2FH paper in 1957, which organized the field of #nucleosynthesis into complementary nuclear processes. Explore more of Hoyle's groundbreaking research here 🔗: https://ow.ly/l1Xu50ZfYAB #astronomy