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Editor's choice

Apr 1, 2012

Free to view: a special focus issue of Physics World examining some of the latest applications of optics and lasers

In depth: Nuclear & particle physics

Lessons from Fukushima

Mike Weightman says improving nuclear safety should never stop

Fermilab's next frontier

Margaret Harris learns about Fermilab's plans for the post-Tevatron era

Firm takes middle ground to fusion

Fusion demonstrator could cost fraction of a standard reactor, as Hamish Johnston reports

The brave new-media world

Chad Orzel says physicists have to get used to doing science in the open

A taste of the exotic

Paddy Regan outlines the key challenges for nuclear physicists 100 years after Rutherford's great discovery

Big science in a big world

James Poskett explores how Ernest Rutherford, who 100 years ago revealed his proposal of the atom's structure, also helped to pioneer modern international science

Neutron target station takes the heat

Michael Banks looks at a novel approach to cooling the proton target at the European Spallation Source

Making CERN's best even better

Matthew Chalmers looks at what is in store for CERN in the next 10 years

Pushing the boundaries

Matin Durrani reports on the rise of China's Institute of High Energy Physics

Ultracold neutrons probe the particle-physics frontier

Peter Geltenbort and Oliver Zimmer describe the exotic neutron physics done at ILL

Leading by example

Robert P Crease pays tribute to President Bush's late science adviser John Marburger

The quantum century

Kenneth W Ford reviews The Quantum Story: a History in 40 Moments by Jim Baggott

A life after CERN

John Ellis on the search for the Higgs boson

Elementary curiosity

Samantha Tang and Martyn Poliakoff review Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

So long, Tevatron

Fermilab physicist Chris Quigg reflects on the decision to close the Tevatron