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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

Features

3D TV without glasses

Wondering why you can watch a Nintendo 3DS without glasses? Jonathan Mather reveals all

Vision of beauty

Richard Taylor explains why fractals play a key role in retinal-implant technology

Keeping a close eye on the future

President of the Optical Society of America, Christopher Dainty, on the future of optics

Optical sensors boost space science

Hamish Johnston explores how space science and cellular biology are proving profitable areas for optics firms

Optoelectronics: a green explosion

"Green" photonics is good for the planet and for profits, discovers Richard Stevenson

Resistance is futile

Continuing our superconductivity centenary celebrations, Ted Forgan looks at the challenges for high-temperature materials

Taming serendipity

Laura H Greene calls for a global collaboration in the search for new high-temperature superconductors

Down the path of least resistance

A century after its discovery, Paul Michael Grant explains why superconductivity still confounds and baffles us today

Metrology in the balance

Robert P Crease examines what could be the biggest overhaul in metrology since the French Revolution

Seeking advice

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

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

With NASA's MESSENGER probe set to enter Mercury's orbit, Louise Prockter outlines the mission's grand aims

Reality check at the LHC

As CERN closes in on new physics, Matthew Chalmers finds particle physicists getting a new-year reality check

The Scholar and the Caliph

On the millennial anniversary of his Book of Optics, Jennifer Ouellette tells the story of Ibn al-Haytham

Not slippery when wet

Jan-Henning Dirks on the mystery of how flies can crawl upside down