A machine-learning algorithm with no training in materials science can unearth hidden knowledge in scientific publications by analysing the semantic relationships between words
Read article: Text mining could help in the rational design of new materials
Jon Cartwright examines some of the technologies that are helping blind physicists to progress in and contribute to the subject
Read article: Physics in the dark
Matthew Watson explains how drones are helping scientists to map and monitor active volcanoes – work that could save human lives
Read article: Spying on volcanoes
Here's what happened when a Go grandmaster took on Google’s DeepMind
Read article: A quantum boost for machine learning
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: World’s largest radio telescope completed in China, tracing mercury in human hair, limiting universal anisotropy
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: Deborah Jin dies at 47, NASA extends IRIS satellite mission, new UK high-temperature lab
Robert P Crease discusses what the science of the solar system teaches us about perception
Read article: See like a solar system
Technique developed for molecular dynamics could be used in climate science and astronomy
Read article: New algorithm puts time-scrambled data into chronological order
Met Office atmospheric physicist Susan Ballard finds it "stimulating" to read about some of her earliest predecessors
Read article: The pioneers of weather forecasting
Plans are afoot to build Africa's first ever light source. Sekazi Mtingwa calls for physicists to get behind the project
Read article: A shining light for African science
