News & Comment

As we close volume 1 this month, we take a look at the first year of Nature Reviews Physics: content, topics, authorship and readership.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Gabriel Stokes, a physicist and mathematician best known for his contributions to fluid dynamics, but whose work was broader than that.

This month we publish a Review and an Expert Recommendation on multi-messenger astrophysics, a field that inherently involves big collaborations, big instruments and big data.

This month we examine examples of how advances from different areas of physics can lead to medical applications.

This month we talk about our figures and the lesser-known facts about how they are produced.

This month we publish our first Roadmap. Here is what readers, authors and referees need to know about this article type.

We recall Andrei Sakharov’s contributions to physics and his social and political activism and find that his ideas remain as relevant and inspiring today as 50 years ago.

Women remain under-represented in science, and in particular in physics. Effective action to remedy this situation should be based on rigorous analysis of high-quality data.

We examine the arguments for and against building the next big particle collider and explore the technologies for different future particle accelerator projects.

In this month’s Editorial we explore the status of global nuclear research and industry post-Fukushima and find positive developments.

Reviews take a lot of work and involve many people. Here is a short story illustrating the process from idea to publication and all the players.

As Nature Reviews Physics takes its first step, publishing its first issue, we outline the journal’s scope, aims and dreams for the future. We call on readers, authors and referees to join us on our journey.