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Opinion
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 12 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
Talking physics in the Twittersphere
Mar 2, 2010 8 comments
Brian Clegg argues that personal blogs and sites such as Twitter are a force for good in communicating science
Communicating science
Mar 2, 2010 4 comments
The Hollywood actor Alan Alda, who has a deep and passionate interest in science, is part of an innovative US project to help scientists to communicate, as Robert P Crease finds out
Making sculptures that move
Feb 24, 2010 1 comment
Sculptor and former physicist David Roy explains the joy of spring-driven moving artworks
Your favourite units
Feb 2, 2010 20 comments
Robert P Crease explains the enduring popularity of non-SI units, including the ox-day, firkin and litre
Priority battles
Jan 5, 2010 12 comments
A dozen years after it was found, the priority dispute over who discovered dark energy lingers on, says Robert P Crease
Cargo-cult training
Dec 1, 2009 8 comments
João Magueijo says that training courses to help new lecturers are pointless and a waste of money
Elspeth Drayson: life in the fast lane
Nov 11, 2009 1 comment
Elspeth Drayson, co-owner of motor-racing team Drayson Racing, talks about her route from physics to the pit-lane
Vitaly Ginzburg: a life in physics
Nov 3, 2009 9 comments
Vitaly Ginzburg – one of the most prominent Russian theoretical physicists of the 20th century – talks exclusively about his achievements in physics, his distrust of the church's growing role in Russian society and how the hydrogen bomb saved his life.
How to publish a scientific comment
Nov 2, 2009 4 comments
Rick Trebino relives the time he tried – and failed – to have a comment published in a scientific journal
The lure of synchrotrons
Nov 2, 2009 1 comment
Robert P Crease asks how sound are the arguments that the next generation of synchrotron sources are an essential tool for meeting the energy challenge?
