Blog
3D cosmic-microwave background, iPhone paper and Dance Your PhD winner
Oct 28, 2016
Excerpts from the Red Folder
A toe-tally terrific trio
Oct 27, 2016
"Albert Einstoe" is one of three funny physics sock designs that are perfect gift ideas
Multimedia
Recipe for success with topological materials
Oct 25, 2016
Podcast Hamish Johnston visits Beijing on a hunt for the elusive Weyl fermions
What can we learn from ultrahigh energy cosmic rays?
Oct 26, 2016
Video Gordon Thomson introduces the Telescope Array experiment in Utah
What can you do with a Weyl semimetal?
Oct 19, 2016
Video Zahid Hasan explains why semimetals containing Weyl fermions could be ideal for examining a variety of theories
Features
Taking the long view
Oct 20, 2016
Despite talk of skills shortages, most graduates in scientific disciplines take jobs outside science. Patrick White and Emma Smith reflect on why this is and what it means for the long-term career prospects of physics graduates
The descent of mass
Oct 13, 2016
Jon Cartwright talks to the physicists who are hoping to find a flaw in the equivalence principle
Opinion
Unknown unknowns
Oct 13, 2016
Robert P Crease says people who raise “unknown unknowns” to promote a particular course of action are doing a disservice to science
Gender balance, one woman at a time
Sep 29, 2016
Can a female teacher help convince girls to study advanced physics? Physics teacher Debbie Hayton had a novel way of finding out
Reviews
Finding the right boundaries
Oct 20, 2016
Roger Penrose’s book on “fashion, faith and fantasy” in physics asks excellent questions, but reviewer Chanda Prescod-Weinstein finds some of the answers wanting








