Editor's choice

Big-science supplement

Oct 3, 2011

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

In depth: Culture, history & society

The dream of open science

Feb 9, 2012 2 comments Review

Matin Durrani reviews Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked Science

Web life

Feb 9, 2012 Review

SciEnts and Sciencelive – two sites that offer slightly different takes on scientific outreach and entertainment

Fermilab's next frontier

Feb 1, 2012 2 comments Feature

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

Parting the clouds

Jan 26, 2012 Review

Arnold Wolfendale reviews Earth: the Operator’s Manual by Richard Alley

Between the lines

Jan 26, 2012 Review

A new biography of Stephen Hawking and a history of radioactivity, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Voyagers of discovery

Jan 19, 2012 1 comment Review

John Zarnecki reviews Stephen Pyne’s Voyager: Seeking New Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery

Web life

Jan 19, 2012 1 comment Review

Faraday's Cage Is Where You Put Schrödinger’s Cat – Cherish Bauer-Reich’s blog about physics and engineering – offers an unusual perspective on the life of a PhD student, teacher and researcher

Ad astra! To the stars!

Jan 12, 2012 7 comments Feature

Sidney Perkowitz explores how we might achieve interstellar travel

Presidential pledges

Jan 5, 2012 5 comments Opinion

Robert P Crease proposes pledges to help voters to evaluate US presidential candidates

Quiz of the year 2011

Dec 16, 2011 Feature

Think you know what happened in the world of physics this year? Try our quiz

Let there be a year of light

Dec 15, 2011 1 comment Opinion

Luisa Cifarelli calls for 2015 to be the International Year of Light

Between the lines: Christmas special

Dec 15, 2011 Review

Books on time travel, calculus, science experiments for children and more, reviewed by Margaret Harris, Matin Durrani and Tushna Commissariat