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580 young scientists from 88 countries will participate in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (read press release). They are outstanding students, graduate students and post-docs under 35 years of age, conducting research in the field of physics. The participants had successfully applied in a…

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have succeeded in turning an organic molecule into a nearly ideal quantum system with only two well-defined energy levels.

After a lecture on Interferometric Scattering (iSCAT) Microscopy held at a Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Prof. Sandoghdar gave an interview.

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Label-Free Imaging of Single Proteins Secreted from Living Cells via iSCAT Microscopy

We present a protocol for the real-time optical detection of single unlabeled proteins as they are secreted from living cells. This is based on interferometric scattering (iSCAT) microscopy, which can be applied…

Congratulations! At ICAP 2018 William Hamlyn won the Nature Physics Reviews prize for his poster entitled "Atom-light interactions in thermal Rubidium vapours confined to a volume less than λ3".

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Interview with Nature Physics

Pore-spanning membranes (PSMs) provide a highly attractive model system for investigating fundamental processes in lipid bilayers. We measure and compare lipid diffusion in the supported and suspended regions of PSMs prepared on a microfabricated porous substrate. Although some properties of the…