In depth: Biological & medical physics
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
Inside the complexity labyrinth
Feb 2, 2010 5 comments Review
Gordon Fraser takes a guided tour through the science of complexity
Web life: ComplexityBlog.com
Feb 2, 2010 1 comment Review
ComplexityBlog.com – all you need to know about complexity science
How people work
Jan 5, 2010 4 comments Feature
Roland Ennos offers a new look at familiar human behaviour like walking, chewing and fingernail-breaking
Between the lines
Jan 5, 2010 Review
The other Oppenheimer, cooking for astronauts and the "amazing" Grace Hopper
Between the lines
Dec 1, 2009 Review
A round-up of the best books to put on your Christmas shopping list – or for someone else to buy for you









