Opinion
To change the world
Jun 16, 2011
Robert P Crease finds insights into how to promote science from an unlikely source
Richard Feynman: far more than a practical joker
Jun 1, 2011 5 comments
Lawrence Krauss is interviewed about his new Richard Feynman biography
Probing potential PhDs
May 12, 2011 3 comments
Robert P Crease calls for your thoughts on how best to pick out PhD students
Many universes, many theories
May 3, 2011 12 comments
String theorist Brian Greene talks to Margaret Harris about his latest book
Once a physicist: Rob Cook
Apr 26, 2011 1 comment
The vice-president of advanced technology at Pixar Animation Studios discusses his career
Michio Kaku looks to the physics of the future
Mar 14, 2011 20 comments
String theorist describes his laboratory of the mind
The physicist who tames lightning
Feb 16, 2011 6 comments
Joseph Dwyer on why we still know very little about this spectacular phenomenon
Bird's eye view of Earth's magnetism
Feb 9, 2011 1 comment
Erik Gauger explains how birds possess quantum compasses for navigation
Creating Gyrangle
Feb 1, 2011
Robert P Crease is enthralled by an exotic structure made of 490 hollowed-out triangles
Pyramid metrologists
Jan 5, 2011 7 comments
Robert P Crease looks at strange attempts to use the Great Pyramid of Giza as a measurement standard
Eric Cornell: an experimental maestro
Dec 10, 2010 1 comment
Nobel laureate on why it pays to be an 'oscilloscope and laser guy'
Au revoir, kilogram
Dec 1, 2010 5 comments
Robert P Crease witnesses one of the last inspections of the official SI kilogram standard
Bronx physics
Nov 2, 2010 5 comments
Robert P Crease on why one New York school has produced seven Nobel-prize winners