Latest articles
Einstein’s only experiment is found in French museum
1915 experiment established the connection between magnetism and angular momentum
Soap bubbles transform into lasers
Laser wavelengths depend on bubble's size, paving the way for bubble-laser-based sensors of pressure or ambient electric field
Opinion and reviews
What would happen if communication systems broke down?
Ian Randall reviews Communications Breakdown: SF Stories about the Future of Connection edited by Jonathan Strahan
Lee McIntyre: the ‘rant lit’ philosopher whose angry new book is ‘peppered with flaws and contradictions’
Robert P Crease reviews On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy by Lee McIntyre
The cost of excellence: top scientists on the brutality of the academic system
Emma Chapman reviews Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time by Herlinde Koelbl (translated by Lois Hoyal)
The Creator: a big movie with big effects that explores AI ethics in surprising ways
Kyla Rushman reviews the film The Creator produced, directed and co-written by Gareth Edwards
What the movie Oppenheimer can teach today’s politicians about scientific advice
Robert P Crease says we still have much to learn from the 1954 hearing in which Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance
Size matters: the economies of scale, from the very big to the very small
Tom Tierney reviews Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
#BlackInPhysics
#BlackInPhysics week is an event dedicated to celebrating Black physicists and revealing a more complete picture of what a physicist looks like
Read our coverage on Physics World
Features
Explore more in culture, history and society
Surf’s up: Physics World admires the famous Severn bore
Wave carried surfers by as we stood on a rainy riverbank
Rhapsody as European synchrotron examines Niccolò Paganini’s violin
Scientists have carried out X-ray studies on the iconic violin that was crafted in 1743
Seismic signal that pointed to alien technology was actually a passing truck
Mysterious samples from the ocean floor are not associated with 2014 meteor, study suggests
Mystery of why inkjet-printed paper curls finally solved
Physicists in Austria reveal that solvents in the ink are behind the effect
The physics behind ‘fractal painting’ revealed
The technique involves mixing colourful inks with alcohol and applying it to a surface coated with a layer of acrylic paint
Live on ‘Mars’ for a year, Disney star’s space adventure, lunar dust computer model
Excerpts from the Red Folder
First editions: in pursuit of the original Kaye and Laby
Andrew Ferguson goes hunting for a piece of physics history
Researchers solve mystery of why flying insects gather at artificial light
Tracking insects’ flight under a range of light conditions reveals that artificial lights confuse insects as to which way is up
Cosmic code of conduct: the ethics of human testing in space
Biomedical ethicist Vasiliki Rahimzadeh discusses the need for a universal code of ethics for doing scientific research on human subjects in space
International Day of Women and Girls in Science: inspiring stories from Physics World
Katherine Skipper looks back at last year’s coverage of research led by female physicists
The Magellanic Clouds: astronomers make the case for a name change
Move could make astronomy more welcoming to people of all cultures
The Nobel Prize for Physics
Explore the work of recent Nobel laureates, find out what happens behind the scenes, and discover some who were overlooked for the prize
Related jobs
Related events
- Mathematics and computation | Virtual event Online surface analysis short courses on AES, XPS/ESCA and CasaXPS 11—22 March 2024
- Medical physics | Workshop ISMRM Workshop on Moving Forward with Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Modeling for Diffusion-Weighted MRI: An Attempt at Consensus 26—28 March 2024 | Erlangen, Germany
- Materials | Conference 12th International Conference On Recent Challenges In Engineering And Technology (ICRCET) 16—17 June 2024 | Jakarta, Indonesia