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Highly Downloaded Physical Sciences Articles 2020

Which topics in the Physical Sciences generated the most attention from readers in 2020?

In 2020, Annual Reviews published 15 review journals in the Physical Sciences. The following list represents highly downloaded articles across the Physical Sciences volumes published during the year.

Return to Most Read Articles in 2020 Collection

Superconducting Qubits: Current State of Play

Morten Kjaergaard, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jochen Braumüller, Philip Krantz, Joel I.-J. Wang, Simon Gustavsson, and William D. Oliver, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Machine Learning for Molecular Simulation

Frank Noé, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Klaus-Robert Müller, and Cecilia Clementi, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis

William C. Clark and Alicia G. Harley, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems and Reliant Human Communities

Scott C. Doney, D. Shallin Busch, Sarah R. Cooley, and Kristy J. Kroeker, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Physical Principles Underlying the Complex Biology of Intracellular Phase Transitions

Jeong-Mo Choi, Alex S. Holehouse, and Rohit V. Pappu, Annual Review of Biophysics

Learning-Based Model Predictive Control: Toward Safe Learning in Control

Lukas Hewing, Kim P. Wabersich, Marcel Menner, and Melanie N. Zeilinger, Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems

The Boundaries of the Planetary Boundary Framework: A Critical Appraisal of Approaches to Define a “Safe Operating Space” for Humanity

Frank Biermann and Rakhyun E. Kim, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Aeroacoustics of Silent Owl Flight

Justin W. Jaworski and N. Peake, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Biomolecular Phase Separation: From Molecular Driving Forces to Macroscopic Properties

Gregory L. Dignon, Robert B. Best and Jeetain Mittal, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Climate-Driven Shifts in Marine Species Ranges: Scaling from Organisms to Communities

Malin L. Pinsky, Rebecca L. Selden, and Zoë J. Kitchel, Annual Review of Marine Science

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