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Physics World Focus On Nanotechnology

Jun 1, 2012

Free to view: a special focus issue of Physics World examining some of the latest advances in nanotechnology

Features

Credit where credit's due?

Sep 13, 2012 3 comments

Magdolna Hargittai gets to the bottom of the debate on whether female physicist Chien-Shiung Wu should have received a share of the 1957 Nobel prize

Delving into extra dimensions

Sep 6, 2012 10 comments

Henrik Melbéus and Tommy Ohlsson look at the mind-bending theories of extra dimensions

Oscar Pistorius is helping to redefine 'disability'

Aug 30, 2012 1 comment

James Dacey explores the controversial scientific debate about whether Oscar Pistorius's running blades give him an unfair advantage

The long road to the Higgs boson

Aug 9, 2012 5 comments

Michael Riordan looks back at how the Higgs boson was predicted and the first quarter century of experimental searches for it

100 years of cosmic rays

Aug 1, 2012 3 comments

A century on from the discovery of cosmic rays, Alan Watson examines the remaining mysteries

Material advantage?

Jul 12, 2012 1 comment

In a great sporting performance, how much of that is down to the athlete and how much to the technology they are using? Steve Haake investigates

The quantum game of life

May 31, 2012 11 comments

Can our universe be modelled as a giant computer? Pablo Arrighi and Jonathan Grattage describe recent advances in the "digital physics" project

In the wake of Fukushima

May 10, 2012 2 comments

Steven Judge and Hiroyuki Kuwahara report on efforts to monitor radioactive contamination in areas near Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station