David Abergel

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Chief Editor of Nature Physics @natphys.nature.com. Former runner 🏃. Wannabe crossfitter 🏋️. Mediocre photographer 📷. Opinions my own. Debate welcomed.

Tram track running vertically through the frame, showing where the tar used to keep the track in the correct place has melted.
A half-eaten sugared doughnut sitting on in a plate with green jelly oozing out of it.
Close shot of the face of a red panda as it licks a thin branch.
A screen shot from the Nature Briefing that says "The resulting paper, published in Nature, updates a 2024 preprint that described the tool, including by toning down its reported capabilities."
The cover of the Feb issue of Nature Physics. It shows a colourised electron microscopy image of a device in bright purple with grooves cut down the middle suspended on yellow/orange springs.
An orangutan, framed between a tree trunk and a rock, illuminated from the side so that its hair catches the light, clings to a rope above its head.
Screengrab from the Nature Briefing with a headline "See a time crystal for the first time".
Pood in British English is a unit of weight used in Russia, equal to 36.1 pounds or 16.39 kilograms.
Screengrab of an article that says "He adds: “It’s like saying ‘we’re building the Apollo programme but we don’t actually know how gravity works or how far away the moon is, or how a rocket works, but if we keep on making the rocket bigger maybe we’ll get there’."
Three barbells lined up on the floor of a gym.
A row of 11 whisky bottles on a shelf.
Black bird with yellow beak in the foreground, alpine scenery in the background.
Screen grab of registration confirmation email from the APS. The text is: "We have just added the following Passive Meeting Room Occupancy Policy as a note in the registration process and are letting you know as a courtesy. APS will track meeting room occupancy via passive RFID technology placed on each badge. No personal information will be encoded or tracked; no information will be shared outside our organization. Anonymous movement data will help the program committees plan sessions, allocate space, and enhance future APS Meetings. If you have any questions, please contact meetings@aps.org."
Screenshot from email that says: "We’ll share the latest from Microsoft at these conference sessions: • “Realizing Topological States on Quantum Hardware” with Dr. Chetan Nayak. Dr. Nayak will discuss Microsoft’s advancements and recent news on the development of Majorana 1. Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 8:00 - 8:36 a.m."
Cover of Nature Physics, featuring a 3D image of mouse bladder biopsies showing the inside of a healthy bladder (top) and one with cancer (bottom). The muscle tissue and vasculature are depicted in magenta, the basement membrane in white, and the bladder epithelium in green.
Trees with moss that gives them an eerie green colour in soft side light standing on a carpet of fallen red leaves.
White chalk cliffs, sea, a lighthouse, and a grey and forbidding sky.
Gifts in identical wrapping with side lighting.
Scientific study of flying snakes, including photographs of said snake and depictions of computerised tracking.
Kitchen surface with trays of cookies waiting to be baked, dough ready to be cut, and a recipe book.
A view across huge sand dunes and into a rainy valley beyond.