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Physics World September 2024

Physics World September 2024

Spot the knot: using AI to untangle the topology of molecules

From proteins to DNA, knots are found throughout the molecular world – but understanding what they do is tricky, with even our best theories finding it hard to tell complex knots apart. In this month’s cover feature, Davide Michieletto explains how AI could change all that. Meanwhile, to mark 70 years of CERN, its former head of communications James Gillies reveals how he managed global media coverage of the lab. Finally, Hannah Stern explains her work developing new platforms for quantum technologies, focusing on materials with quantum states that can be controlled with light.

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Jacklyn Gates at LBNL research update

Titanium used to create superheavy livermorium

Left to right: Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer with director Ron Howard. Standing in front on CERN particle physics laboratory in 2009

How the Higgs hunt elevated particle physics to Hollywood status

A group of people including Tom Hanks in front of the ATLAS detector at CERN feature

CERN at 70: the inside story

Tsung-Dao Lee at CERN news

Particle physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies aged 97

Knot 3D vector feature

Spot the knot

Group of women stood in front of conference posters opinion

Fostering equality in big science

lateral thoughts

Landscapes under the stars

Extraterrestrial solar cells opinion

Space solar

Still image from TV show Dark Matter opinion

Alternate worlds

Fermilab campus news

Fermilab is ‘doomed’ without overhaul

Hannah Stern sat in a chair interview

New materials driving the quantum revolution

A close-up shot of pouring milk into a cup of hot tea review

Physics cookbook fails to gel

Barbora Špačková careers

Peering inside the biological nano-universe

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