Physics, written up.
Short research write-ups on recent physics — plasma, fusion, particle physics, materials, and quantum. Each explains one breakthrough in plain language. Written through GSEO, an organisation I'm a member of.
Recreating Cosmic Star Formation in the Laboratory
A breakthrough in plasma physics
Princeton physicists recreated magnetorotational instability — the turbulence that lets gas clouds collapse into stars — with spinning liquid metal, confirming a 20-year-old theory.
Read write-upAdvances in Nuclear Fusion Research
Progress toward practical energy
A survey of the race for fusion power — NIF, JET, and the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator that held plasma for 43 seconds in 2025 — and why the grid is still decades away.
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Why Matter Wins Over Antimatter
A new discovery at CERN
A new CERN result: beauty baryons decay slightly differently from their antimatter partners (CP violation) — a clue to why the universe is made of matter at all.
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Strong and Stretchy Metamaterials
MIT's double-network design
MIT engineers broke the usual strength-versus-flexibility trade-off with a 'double-network' structure that stretches to three times its length without losing toughness.
Read write-upMacroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Superconducting Circuits
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2025 Nobel Prize — Clarke, Devoret, and Martinis showed quantum tunnelling and energy quantization happen in a chip-scale superconducting circuit, the groundwork for quantum computing.
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