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Print edition: November 2008
Features
The large hadron computer
Plans for dealing with the torrent of data from the Large Hadron Collider’s detectors have made the CERN particle-physics lab, yet again, a pioneer in computing as well as physics. Andreas Hirstius describes the challenges of processing and storing data in the age of petabyte science
A new view of particle physics
CERN engineer Sergio Cittolin depicts the Large Hadron Collider as Leonardo da Vinci might have seen it
The digital universe
Seth Lloyd looks at the possibility of solving the conundrum of quantum gravity with the tools of information and computation
Quanta
Newton's very own Hawking
Out of this world
Watch this space
Pull over
Frontiers
Heat change gives spin current
'Stamp' produces bendy, transparent solar cells
Water waves coast to safety
Physicists pull off the gecko's feat
Sound technique to unplug oil pipes
News & Analysis
Particle theorists scoop Nobel prize
LHC, still out of action, officially launches
Chandrayaan-1 mission blasts off to the Moon
US reopens nuclear trade with India
Europe plans €1bn laser-fusion project
Pair take top science posts
First commercial quantum network tested in Vienna
Optical textile tests MRI patients from afar
Hubble rebooted after electrical fault
US physicists face fresh budget crisis
Singapore opens 'Fusionopolis'
Sweden pushes X-rays to the MAX
Astroparticle road map unveiled
Media darling
Virgin's Knight tackles climate change
Editorial
Rip up the rule book
The decree limiting the Nobel Prize for Physics to three people should be abandoned
Forum
Has Bush been good for science?
As US President George W Bush’s eight-year term in office comes to an end, his official science advisor John H Marburger argues that science in the US is flourishing following a decade of increased federal spending
Critical Point
Beauty and the beast
In his 100th column for Physics World, Robert P Crease examines the Large Hadron Collider – the biggest physics experiment of all time – and wonders whether we can call it “beautiful”
Feedback
Ups and downs for Chinese scientists
Getting lost in the 'Map of physics'
Deeper UK funding cuts
Plasma physics goes beyond fusion
'M' for medical isotopes
Kipling revisited
Reviews
Paranoia, amateur style
Its and bits, lightly
Quantifying doom and gloom
From Mumbai to the Moon
Careers
One year left to go
As they enter their final year of undergraduate study, six students from around the globe share with Physics World their perspectives on physics, their courses and the future
Young scientists fly high
Developing-world physics
Movers and shakers
Lateral Thoughts
Universal cause for celebration
