Happy New Year! The January 2017 issue of Physics World is now out
Get the new year off to the best possible start
Read article: The 10 quirkiest physics stories of 2016
The 10 quirkiest physics stories of 2016
We revisit a physicist playing at this year’s Masters golf tournament, a marten putting a halt to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and much more
Read article: Holiday word challenge
Holiday word challenge
Win a book in our prize competition
Read article: Hungry reindeer could mitigate climate change, talking about quantum computing and our breakthroughs of the year
Hungry reindeer could mitigate climate change, talking about quantum computing and our breakthroughs of the year
Excerpts from a festive Red Folder
Read article: Audio and visual highlights of 2016
Audio and visual highlights of 2016
String wars, Native American voices and the many faces of physics
The Science of Heaven
Richard de Grijs previews a new documentary about the people’s history of Chinese astronomy
Read article: Book of the Year 2016
Book of the Year 2016
Physics World book experts Tushna Commissariat and Margaret Harris discuss a few of the best popular-physics books of 2016 and announce the winner of the magazine’s annual book award
Waking up to a gravitational wave
LIGO scientists explain how they made the first direct detection of two coalescing black holes
Freeman Dyson on the physics dream team, Tycho Brahe's heavy metal, Tintin bags an astronomical sum
Excerpts from the Red Folder
To the stars, through adversity
The Physics World Focus on Astronomy and Space is available now
