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Apr 1, 2012

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

Features

Open doors for physics graduates

Six former physics students reveal what they did after leaving college

Magnet challenges for ITER

ITER uses complex magnets to control a 150 million Kelvin plasma, as Daniel Clery explains

Making CERN's best even better

Matthew Chalmers looks at what is in store for CERN in the next 10 years

Pushing the boundaries

Matin Durrani reports on the rise of China's Institute of High Energy Physics

Physics on Wikipedia

Martin Poulter and Mike Peel say click that edit button

Licence to stun

David Wilkinson describes how physicists helped test the safety and effectiveness of less-lethal weapons

The inside track on simulation software

The future's bright for simulation, say David Kan and Daniel Smith of COMSOL

Testing equipment for space

Giles Case looks at some of the techniques used to ensure a high likelihood of mission success

A life after CERN

John Ellis on the search for the Higgs boson

Reuse, recycle and thrive: used-equipment businesses keep growing

Hamish Johnston discovers why the used vacuum equipment market keeps growing

Coming soon to a field near you

Richard Taylor investigates the biophysics and mathematics of crop-circle art

Beyond the eureka moment

Nadya Reingand offers advice to academics as they consider how – and whether – to commercialize their inventions

Hands-on physics at the Royal Society

Sights and sounds from the Summer Science Exhibition at Carlton House Terrace

Cloaking space–time

Martin McCall and Paul Kinsler introduce the "event cloak" – perfect for the ultimate bank heist

The sounds of science

Wanda Diaz Merced describes how losing her sight led her to investigate ways of using sound to study space physics