Semiconductors and electronics News Willard Boyle: 1924–2011 Nobel-prize-winning physicist and digital-camera pioneer dies at 86 Read article: Willard Boyle: 1924–2011
Transport properties Feature Resistance is futile Continuing our superconductivity centenary celebrations, Ted Forgan looks at the challenges for high-temperature materials Read article: Resistance is futile
Transport properties Feature Taming serendipity Laura H Greene calls for a global collaboration in the search for new high-temperature superconductors Read article: Taming serendipity
Transport properties Feature Down the path of least resistance A century after its discovery, Paul Michael Grant explains why superconductivity still confounds and baffles us today Read article: Down the path of least resistance
History Opinion and reviews Newton’s three-body problem Sir Isaac speaks for himself in Craig Baxter's play Let Newton Be!, reviewed by Margaret Harris Read article: Newton’s three-body problem
Philosophy, sociology and religion Opinion and reviews Revelations of a golden age George Gheverghese Joseph reviews Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili Read article: Revelations of a golden age
Transport properties Opinion and reviews A Nobel for communism Alexei Kojevnikov reviews Lenin's Laureate by Paul R Josephson Read article: A Nobel for communism
Philosophy, sociology and religion Opinion and reviews Bombendämmerung John Mueller examines Richard Rhodes' fourth (and final?) book on nuclear bombs Read article: Bombendämmerung
Quantum mechanics Video Many worlds: how Hugh Everett III changed quantum mechanics View on demand: an online lecture presented by Peter Byrne Read article: Many worlds: how Hugh Everett III changed quantum mechanics
History Feature The Scholar and the Caliph On the millennial anniversary of his Book of Optics, Jennifer Ouellette tells the story of Ibn al-Haytham Read article: The Scholar and the Caliph