Blog
Solving your scientific identity crisis
Dec 24, 2015
What kind of scientist are you? Find out with our flowchart
Curiosity findings puzzle Mars rover team
Dec 18, 2015
Tantalizing glimpse of habitable conditions on ancient Mars
Multimedia
Book of the Year 2015
Dec 15, 2015
Podcast Physics World editor Matin Durrani and reviews editor Margaret Harris discuss some of the year's best popular-physics books and select a winner from a strong shortlist
Welcome to Lightfest
Dec 7, 2015
Video Light-based technologies wow the crowds at Birmingham's new central library
Features
Six secrets of champagne
Dec 1, 2015
Gérard Liger-Belair reveals the hidden science of the world's top sparkling wine
Opinion
Throwing the book at bad ideas
Dec 10, 2015
Several eminent popular-science authors have claimed that bad scientific ideas “held back” good ones. In Philip Ball’s view, such arguments deny the reality of how science is done
Reviews
Physics in the family
Dec 8, 2015
Autobiographies of the Nobel-prize-winning crystallographer William Lawrence Bragg, his wife and daughter reveal a family life full of science and love, writes Mark Spackman
Nature’s ups and downs
Dec 8, 2015
A history of one of the world’s most influential scientific journals is sound in the early years but leaves out some crucial modern developments, Peter Rodgers finds








