Correction to: Nature Physics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02874-0, published online 7 April 2025.

Measurements play a crucial role in our daily lives; and we rely on metrology to ensure that measurements are accurate and comparable. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the global measurement system, we look into its future.

This month, we celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention and look to the future of metrology.

Without this singular evolutionary event, it seems, the rich history of animals, land plants, and most fungi would not have been possible. But is evolutionary history really so accidental? If this event had not happened, would there truly be no multicellular life today? It is fair to say that we still do not have definitive answers to these questions. But an intriguing possibility has emerged from

Many young metrologists have fascinating ideas that could shape the future of metrology. Chingis Kuanbayev and Kangyoung Sung tell us how the young professionals imagine what the field will look like beyond 2050.

The Meteorites – Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time (Hardback)Edited by: Helen GordonProfile Books Ltd; 2025; 288 pp. In The Meteorites — Encounters with Outer Space & Deep Time, Helen Gordon tells the stories of selected meteorites; however, this is a book about meteorites without images of meteorites. It is also a book as much about meteorites as it is about humans. Now that I have got that

Heliophysics focuses on understanding the different processes in the solar system and the influence of the Sun on space and planets. Collaboration between subfields of heliophysics and different communities needs to improve to advance the field.

Discrepancies between previous experimental and simulation results had led researchers to question the existence of this phase. The main difficulty lay in detecting this distinct phase transition, which is primarily governed by changes in hydrogen dynamics rather than by structural transformation. To circumvent this issue, the team investigated the dynamics of water using quasi-elastic neutron scattering

Previous studies invoked scaling laws or mechanisms such as heat transfer, phase change, capillarity, mass diffusion, and nucleation to explain the growth of ice bubbles. However, a comprehensive and quantitative model connecting bubble shapes to freezing conditions remained elusive. In particular, the interplay between freezing rates, gas diffusion, and capillary forces was poorly understood, limiting

This month, we publish a Comment detailing the proportion of papers published in Nature Physics that have a last author who is a woman. Here, we present our internal data and outline our response and commitments for the future.

The implication, then, is that we will need something that is not a rocket, that is, something propelled by an external energy source. One idea is a high-power laser driving a light sail of low mass with photon momentum. It sounds like science fiction, and serious estimates of the practical requirements illustrate a series of immense challenges. Even so, it may be possible. According to a recent analysis

In addition to photovoltaics, wind turbines are among the most powerful renewable energy sources. Thorsten Schrader and Frank Härtig outline the challenges for metrology.