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Licence to stun
Sep 1, 2011 3 comments
David Wilkinson describes how physicists helped test the safety and effectiveness of less-lethal weapons
The inside track on simulation software
Aug 18, 2011
The future's bright for simulation, say David Kan and Daniel Smith of COMSOL
Testing equipment for space
Aug 12, 2011
Giles Case looks at some of the techniques used to ensure a high likelihood of mission success
Reuse, recycle and thrive: used-equipment businesses keep growing
Aug 5, 2011
Hamish Johnston discovers why the used vacuum equipment market keeps growing
Coming soon to a field near you
Aug 4, 2011 4 comments
Richard Taylor investigates the biophysics and mathematics of crop-circle art
Beyond the eureka moment
Jul 28, 2011
Nadya Reingand offers advice to academics as they consider how – and whether – to commercialize their inventions
Hands-on physics at the Royal Society
Jul 14, 2011
Sights and sounds from the Summer Science Exhibition at Carlton House Terrace
Cloaking space–time
Jul 7, 2011 1 comment
Martin McCall and Paul Kinsler introduce the "event cloak" – perfect for the ultimate bank heist
The sounds of science
Jun 23, 2011
Wanda Diaz Merced describes how losing her sight led her to investigate ways of using sound to study space physics
3D TV without glasses
Jun 2, 2011 2 comments
Wondering why you can watch a Nintendo 3DS without glasses? Jonathan Mather reveals all
Vision of beauty
May 4, 2011 5 comments
Richard Taylor explains why fractals play a key role in retinal-implant technology
Keeping a close eye on the future
Apr 28, 2011 1 comment
President of the Optical Society of America, Christopher Dainty, on the future of optics
Optical sensors boost space science
Apr 28, 2011
Hamish Johnston explores how space science and cellular biology are proving profitable areas for optics firms
Optoelectronics: a green explosion
Apr 28, 2011
"Green" photonics is good for the planet and for profits, discovers Richard Stevenson
