Up, up and away
Students get a taste for cosmic rays in special balloon flight
Which is the most scientifically interesting planet in the solar system, apart from the Earth?
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Dirac seen in a new light
Check out this composite image of Paul Dirac made from pupils and teachers from his former school
Martin Fleischmann: 1927–2012
Cold-fusion chemist dies
Curiosity is winched down to Mars
Ambitious, audacious and unconventional landing succeeds
Pier Oddone to step down as Fermilab's director
Eight-year tenure saw Tevatron pushed to its limits
If you were to give $27m to physics, what would be the most beneficial to the subject?
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Nine physicists bag $27m prize
Russian millionaire Yuri Milner establishes the Fundamental Physics Prize
The August 2012 issue of Physics World is out now
Catch up on the Higgs boson and the centenary of cosmic rays
Standard Model Higgs signal keeps getting stronger
ATLAS and CMS release their latest results
