Nature Physics, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03159-2
Suspensions of colloidal hard spheres are excellent model systems for studying glass dynamics. Adding tracer particles enables a hydrodynamic approach for probing the glass transition.
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- Tracing dynamic arrest
- Emergent signatures of the glass transition in colloidal suspensionsNature Physics, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03140-z Colloidal suspensions are known to display a glass transition. Now, insights into this transition, via its effect on the solvent, are gained by probing the correlated motion of tracer particles in such systems.
- A star of contradictionsNature Physics, Published online: 15 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03151-w A star of contradictions
- Traceability for protein sequence to functionNature Physics, Published online: 15 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03130-1 How proteins — sequences of amino acids — fold determines their function. We discuss efforts towards the establishment of metrics traceable to the International System of Units that link the sequence of a protein to its structure and function.
- An alternate chapter in magnetismNature Physics, Published online: 15 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03149-4 A recently proposed class of magnets, so-called altermagnets, combine features of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. We discuss the scientific appeal of altermagnets, current controversies and challenges for their practical use.
- An anniversary annumNature Physics, Published online: 15 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03152-9 As our metrology column turns ten years, there is no better way to celebrate than to look at the definitions of a year, finds Stefanie Reichert.
- Preferential playNature Physics, Published online: 15 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03162-7 Preferential play
- Emergent electric field induced by dissipative sliding dynamics of domain walls in a Weyl magnetNature Physics, Published online: 15 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-025-03124-z The emergent electric field induced by pinned magnetic solitons remains poorly understood. Now the dissipative motion of magnetic domain walls under an alternating current in Weyl magnet NdAlSi devices is shown to induce a large emergent electric field.
