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Oct 3, 2011

Download the Physics World supplement looking at the challenges of building and designing next-generation "big-science" facilities

In depth: Nuclear & particle physics

Seeking advice

Looking for a job? Margaret Harris sees what help is at hand for physics graduates finding their way in the job market

On the road to discovery

With CERN's Large Hadron Collider restarting after its winter shutdown, Tommaso Dorigo explains what drives its researchers as data-taking begins

Dating the universe

Kulvinder Singh Chadha muses on the age of the universe

Weighty matters

Andy Parker tells the remarkable tale of CERN's search for the Higgs boson

Nuclear's new generation

Novel nuclear reactors promise much, but hurdles remain before any are ever built, explains Edwin Cartlidge

Hot fusion

Steve Cowley outlines the next challenges in fusion power

Nuclear power: yes or no?

Ian Lowe and Barry Brook go head-to-head in our big nuclear-power debate

Discovery with statistics

Robert P Crease discusses your responses to his "experiment" into the nature of discovery and statistics

A trip through Weinberg's world

John Ellis examines the thoughts of theorist Steven Weinberg

Discovering dark matter

Robert P Crease calls for your view on what would count as a "discovery" in the search for dark matter

Physics at the end of the Earth

Margaret Harris goes on the ultimate physics-adventure

Between the lines

Why, oh why, oh why?, the science of complexity, a brief history of cosmology

The Majorana mystery

Salvatore Esposito examines the life of troubled Italian genius Ettore Majorana

Between the lines: CERN special

CERN special – learn about the Large Hadron Collider, its detectors and the man who made it all happen

Law and the end of the world

Edwin Cartlidge examines the case of a US lawyer who believes that the courts must step in if required to halt experiments like the Large Hadron Collider