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In depth: Biological & medical physics
In the wake of Fukushima
May 10, 2012 2 comments Feature
Steven Judge and Hiroyuki Kuwahara report on efforts to monitor radioactive contamination in areas near Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station
Neutrons for the future at the Institut Laue-Langevin
Sep 22, 2011 1 comment Opinion
Andrew Harrison talks about how the Grenoble lab hopes to maintain its world-class position
Licence to stun
Sep 1, 2011 3 comments Feature
David Wilkinson describes how physicists helped test the safety and effectiveness of less-lethal weapons
Coming soon to a field near you
Aug 4, 2011 4 comments Feature
Richard Taylor investigates the biophysics and mathematics of crop-circle art
Between the lines
Jul 21, 2011 Review
Books on the physics of animals, humans and cars, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Seeking advice
Mar 1, 2011 Feature
Looking for a job? Margaret Harris sees what help is at hand for physics graduates finding their way in the job market
Not slippery when wet
Dec 1, 2010 1 comment Feature
Jan-Henning Dirks on the mystery of how flies can crawl upside down
Absence of evidence
Oct 1, 2010 2 comments Review
Peter Williams weighs up a controversial book challenging the convention that there is no safe level of radiation
Urban cool
Aug 2, 2010 2 comments Feature
Summer in the city can be stifling, but appropriate surfaces and vegetation can cool us off, says Roland Ennos
Damage limitation
Aug 2, 2010 1 comment Feature
Treating tumours with hadrons rather than X-rays has many benefits for patients, as John Gordon explains
Finding the secrets of life
Aug 2, 2010 2 comments Review
Michael P H Stumpf recalls the life of DNA pioneer Francis Crick
From ray-gun to Blu-ray
Apr 30, 2010 3 comments Feature
Fifty years after their invention, Sidney Perkowitz examines the huge impact of lasers on science, culture and everyday life
Where next for the laser?
Apr 30, 2010 2 comments Feature
Six laser experts recall how the laser has advanced their fields of interest – and speculate where it will take these areas next
The flu fighters
Feb 2, 2010 1 comment Feature
Tools from physics can now be used to model the H1N1 flu pandemic, as Vittoria Colizza and Alessandro Vespignani explain
