Solar farms keep the neighbourhood cool, inspecting solar panels in broad daylight
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Solar farms keep the neighbourhood cool, inspecting solar panels in broad daylight
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Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Solar farms keep the neighbourhood cool, inspecting solar panels in broad daylight
Physicists Adam Kirrander and Jon Marangos are backing a proposal to build the UK’s first X-ray free electron laser
Read article: Why the UK should build its own X-ray free electron laser
In this podcast we speak to a spin-glass expert, a climate physicist and a medical physicist in training
Read article: Exploring the science behind the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics, travelling 13,000 km to become a medical physicist
Trio share award for work on complex systems
Read article: Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi win the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Kitty Q teaches children about quantum mechanics, kitchen physics experiments, Emmy Noether takes on Baron Munchausen
Updated infographics chart the global flow of elite physicists since 1901
Read article: Migration and the Nobel prize: more than one quarter of physics laureates are immigrants
Emily Draper of the University of Glasgow uses neutrons to study self-assembly and has been awarded the BTM Willis Prize for her contributions to the field
Read article: Neutrons reveal secrets of self-assembly
In this podcast we also find out how muons are used to study materials
Read article: Tackling the big questions in physics with Jim Al-Khalili, how a physicist worked out why dinosaurs went extinct
There is nothing better than a bolt from the blue
Read article: Secrecy keeps the Nobel prize fresh and exciting
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Golden eclipse wins Astronomy Photographer of the Year, dancing atoms and molecules, tactile illusions