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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 14 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
Avoiding an unholy marriage
Dec 1, 2010 5 comments
Michael Banks looks at how maths and music underpin a new homage to Ernest Rutherford
Roy Glauber – from the Bronx to the Nobel
Nov 18, 2010 1 comment
On winning his Nobel, his time on the Manhattan Project and working alongside other physics greats
Living with a star
Nov 2, 2010 2 comments
Alan Title reveals how NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is telling us about the Sun
Anton Zeilinger: a quantum pioneer
Oct 14, 2010 5 comments
On why children should be exposed to quantum mechanics from an early age
Vacuum Expo 2010 launches in the UK
Oct 8, 2010
Two-day event includes conference and trade exhibition
