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Features: May 2009
Doing science in the open
Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration
The gambling scholar
At the root of quantum theory we find only two basic ingredients — complex numbers and probabilities. Both, amazingly, were discovered by the same man. Artur Ekert tells the story of one of the finest minds of the Renaissance, the colourful and unpredictable Girolamo Cardano
Optical modelling points the way to PDT progress
Off-the-shelf commercial software is helping medical physicists to enhance the clinical efficacy of photodynamic therapy for targeted tumour destruction. Joe McEntee reports.
Mathematical typesetting gets XML makeover
Siân Harris talks to Barry MacKichan the founder of MacKichan Software about why the company is bringing XML-based processing to its traditional LaTeX-based software tools
Adaptive-control algorithms take condensed-matter physics into the 21st century
Adam Kollin and John Keem of RHK Technology explain how their firm is helping physicists get the most from scanning probe microscopy
Electromagnetic software accelerates ahead
Hamish Johnston explains how software born in an accelerator lab is now being used for everything from medical physics to invisibility cloaks
