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How significant would the discovery of the Higgs boson be?
May 17, 2012
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Multimedia
Graphene comes of age
May 17, 2012
Patrick Soukiassian discusses the vast potential of graphene, in this video interview
How to transform your institution
May 9, 2012
In this video interview, Giorgio Margaritondo talks about his experiences of revamping the EPFL
Features
In the wake of Fukushima
May 10, 2012
Steven Judge and Hiroyuki Kuwahara report on efforts to monitor radioactive contamination in areas near Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station
Venus: it's now or never
May 1, 2012
As next month's transit of Venus nears, Jay M Pasachoff examines the science and history of these exceptionally rare events
Opinion
Atmospheric tales
May 1, 2012
Robert P Crease asks why the discovery of Venus's atmosphere is still so controversial
Reviews
Reality bites
May 17, 2012
Vlatko Vedral reviews Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality
Doing physics – readers' pictures
May 10, 2012
A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge