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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: Plasma & fusion

Firm takes middle ground to fusion

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

Magnet challenges for ITER

ITER uses complex magnets to control a 150 million Kelvin plasma, as Daniel Clery explains

The inside track on simulation software

The future's bright for simulation, say David Kan and Daniel Smith of COMSOL

The sounds of science

Wanda Diaz Merced describes how losing her sight led her to investigate ways of using sound to study space 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

Hot fusion

Steve Cowley outlines the next challenges in fusion power

Bright future for fusion careers

Roberto Kersevan reveals life and work as a vacuum scientist at the ITER fusion project

Fusion's bright new dawn

The world's largest laser could transform the search for abundant, carbon-free electricity, as Mike Dunne explains

Between the lines

The other Oppenheimer, cooking for astronauts and the "amazing" Grace Hopper

Between the lines

A round-up of the best books to put on your Christmas shopping list – or for someone else to buy for you

Of gluons, atoms and strings

An unusual alliance between physicists who study ultrahot plasmas and ultracold atoms is yielding intriguing results – and may even lead to an experimental test for string theory, as Barbara Jacak reveals

The power of robotics

Robotics competitions supply a vital missing link in science and engineering education, says Robert P Crease

Web life: Hyperphysics

Doing science in the open

Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration