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Jun 1, 2012

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

Features

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

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