Never thought I'd publish a paper about closed timelike curves, but they turn out to clarify what entanglement can do for quantum metrology. Now out in Physical Review Letters! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

10 years ago today I was elected as parent governor of Highdown School and 4 years ago I became Chair of Governors of that fantastic school. It has not always been easy, but it has always been rewarding. Many schools struggle to recruit governors, so please consider volunteering.

Yesterday presenting the banana work at the ‘Gallery of Soft Matter’ at the #APSMarchMeeting! 🍌👩‍🎨🎨 Thanks a lot to APS DSOFT for the invitation and for the amazing T-Shirts too!:)

Is gravity classical or quantum? A proposed experiment could shed light on this century-old question physics.aps.org/articles/v17/65

Anyone out there with a Quantum Design OptiCool: Do you have a sample mounting / chip carrier scheme for simultaneous optical interrogation and electronic measurements with which you are happy?

Adding neutrinos to an existing nucleosynthesis recipe can account for the puzzling existence of neutron-deficient heavy nuclei. The required conditions prevail in binary neutron star mergers and rare types of magnetically intense supernovae. physics.aps.org/articles/v17/s…

My latest: CERN is pushing to build a new 90km megacollider. Germany, which contributes more than 20% of CERN’s budget, says it “cannot support funding of the project at this point” nature.com/articles/d4158…

Researchers have succeeded in recasting the discrete dynamics of a network as a continuous time series, thereby making the network’s behavior potentially more predictable. go.aps.org/3xweZvj

It was a delight to work with Ivan on this fascinating article.

Earlier today I tapped my phone to check the time. It said 17:28, which instantly brought back to my mind a paper I'd written in 1990 about the x-ray binary star system MXB 1728-34. adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990MNRAS…

BREAKING: SVOM (Space Variable Objects Monitor), a gamma-ray-burst detector built by France and China, has successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre scmp.com/news/china/sci…

Not just a journal editor but a magazine writer too! Nice story by Robert Garisto

Imperial College London is hiring five Lecturers or Senior Lecturers in Physics with QFT and gravity as one focus area. Application deadline 19 August. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIK779/lec…

The Mpemba effect is the surprising observation that warm water can freeze faster than cold water. Three research teams have explored quantum analogs of this effect, with implications for quantum thermodynamics physics.aps.org/articles/v17/1…

A proposed three-beam experiment could determine the values of fundamental constants in quantum electrodynamics go.aps.org/4grNBjV

A new method for fixing errors in quantum computations can be just as accurate as previous approaches while needing fewer resources go.aps.org/422T8bS

An algorithm allows the states of certain quantum systems to be determined from data more quickly than was previously possible go.aps.org/4jwu6Iv