Features
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
Resistance is futile
Apr 20, 2011
Continuing our superconductivity centenary celebrations, Ted Forgan looks at the challenges for high-temperature materials
Taming serendipity
Apr 14, 2011 1 comment
Laura H Greene calls for a global collaboration in the search for new high-temperature superconductors
Down the path of least resistance
Apr 6, 2011 4 comments
A century after its discovery, Paul Michael Grant explains why superconductivity still confounds and baffles us today
Metrology in the balance
Mar 22, 2011 5 comments
Robert P Crease examines what could be the biggest overhaul in metrology since the French Revolution
Seeking advice
Mar 1, 2011
Looking for a job? Margaret Harris sees what help is at hand for physics graduates finding their way in the job market
On the road to discovery
Mar 1, 2011
With CERN's Large Hadron Collider restarting after its winter shutdown, Tommaso Dorigo explains what drives its researchers as data-taking begins
A message from Mercury
Feb 1, 2011
With NASA's MESSENGER probe set to enter Mercury's orbit, Louise Prockter outlines the mission's grand aims
Reality check at the LHC
Jan 18, 2011 17 comments
As CERN closes in on new physics, Matthew Chalmers finds particle physicists getting a new-year reality check
The Scholar and the Caliph
Jan 5, 2011 6 comments
On the millennial anniversary of his Book of Optics, Jennifer Ouellette tells the story of Ibn al-Haytham
Not slippery when wet
Dec 1, 2010 1 comment
Jan-Henning Dirks on the mystery of how flies can crawl upside down