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Opinion
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
Nuclear power: yes or no?
Oct 1, 2010 4 comments
Ian Lowe and Barry Brook go head-to-head in our big nuclear-power debate
Nuclear fear revisited
Oct 1, 2010 3 comments
Robert P Crease confronts the public's fears over nuclear power
Discovery with statistics
Aug 2, 2010 4 comments
Robert P Crease discusses your responses to his "experiment" into the nature of discovery and statistics
Swimming against the unseen tide
Aug 2, 2010 13 comments
Amy Bug finds that even small, unconscious biases in the evaluation of female physicists can have dramatic consequences
Missed metric moment
Jul 1, 2010 4 comments
Robert P Crease bemoans the US's failure to capitalize on an early opportunity to go metric
Discovering dark matter
Jun 2, 2010 16 comments
Robert P Crease calls for your view on what would count as a "discovery" in the search for dark matter
New energy territories
Apr 15, 2010 5 comments
James Dacey visits CERN to catch up with the LHC's fab four
