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- Anacondas get vertical on the groundNature Physics, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02875-z Snake locomotion comes in many shapes. A mathematical model explains the non-planar S-start, where parts of the snake’s body lift off the ground.
- Storage-ring laser spectroscopy of accelerator-produced hydrogen-like <sup>208</sup>Bi<sup>82+</sup>Nature Physics, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02885-x Hyperfine splitting was measured using the laser spectroscopy of accelerator-produced hydrogen-like bismuth ions. This demonstrates the feasibility of such measurements with other exotic ions with low production yields in a storage ring.
- Control of spin currents by magnon interference in a canted antiferromagnetNature Physics, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02819-7 Controlling the propagation of spin currents with opposite polarities in antiferromagnets has remained challenging. Now the frequency of coherently excited spin waves in a haematite-based device is shown to control the sign of the spin current.
- Scalable microwave-to-optical transducers at the single-photon level with spinsNature Physics, Published online: 22 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02884-y Converting photons from one frequency range to another uses nonlinear effects that are often weak. Strong nonlinearities in rare-earth-ion-doped crystals have now been used to perform microwave-to-optical transduction at the single-photon level.
- Skyrmion bags of light in plasmonic moiré superlatticesNature Physics, Published online: 22 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02873-1 Skyrmion bags—textures comprising multiple skyrmions contained within a larger skyrmion—have been reported in several condensed matter systems. Now an optical analogue of these structures has been observed in plasmonic moiré superlattices.
- We need to talk about heliophysicsNature Physics, Published online: 18 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02851-7 Heliophysics focuses on understanding the different processes in the solar system and the influence of the Sun on space and planets. Collaboration between subfields of heliophysics and different communities needs to improve to advance the field.
- Interplay of actin nematodynamics and anisotropic tension controls endothelial mechanicsNature Physics, Published online: 18 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02847-3 Blood flow through a vessel deforms vessel walls. Cells lining these walls sense the changes in pressure as blood flows and reorient their actin fibres in the direction of largest tension.
- Hamiltonian engineering of collective XYZ spin models in an optical cavityNature Physics, Published online: 15 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-02866-0 Spin models that can be emulated by quantum simulators are usually restricted to systems with conserved total magnetization. The tuning of photon-mediated interactions between atoms in a cavity enables the implementation of more general models also useful for quantum sensing tasks.
