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Editor's choice

Apr 1, 2012

Free to view: a special focus issue of Physics World examining some of the latest applications of optics and lasers

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Features, opinions and reviews from the world’s top physicists and professional science writers

Features

In the wake of Fukushima

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

As next month's transit of Venus nears, Jay M Pasachoff examines the science and history of these exceptionally rare events

The perfect storm

Richard Corfield investigates the science behind the sinking of the Titanic

How to forecast an earthquake

Edwin Cartlidge investigates the latest in earthquake forecasting

Finding jobs in hard times

How can you best stand out in today's graduate job market?

Opinion

Atmospheric tales

Robert P Crease asks why the discovery of Venus's atmosphere is still so controversial

Neil deGrasse Tyson makes the case for space exploration

Grand visions for space "trigger a wave of innovation", says US astrophysicist

The cat that never dies

Robert P Crease explains the enduring fascination with Schrödinger's cat

Geoengineering: the pitfalls and politics

US geoscientist Ken Caldeira explains why he has reservations about tinkering with the climate

When the Earth's magnetic field flips

French geophysicist Vincent Courtillot discusses why the Earth's magnetic field occasionally flips

Reviews

When Creativity met Necessity

Roger Bridgman reviews Mad Like Tesla and How James Watt Invented the Copier

Between the lines: fiction special

A round-up of recent fiction books with a physics theme, reviewed by Margaret Harris and Matin Durrani

Reality bites

Vlatko Vedral reviews Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality

Web life

Universe Sandbox: an interactive space simulator that allows you to build your own solar system, fling asteroids at the Earth and send a teapot into orbit

Doing physics – readers' pictures

A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge