Shutdowns and start-ups
Robert P Crease on the meaning of ceremonies we hold for labs that are closing down
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Dialling up the cosmos
Edwin Cartlidge reports on the new apps that allow smartphone users to detect cosmic rays
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Synthesizing speech: using computational methods to solve the inverse problem for high-pitched voices
Samuli Siltanen describes how the Markov chain Monte Carlo method can be used to support the development of speech-synthesizers suitable for women and children
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The world of physics in 2015
Find out more about the key physics events of the coming year – and those we predict might happen
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Social physics and antisocial science
An accessible overview of Sandy Pentland's work on the physics of social networks, reviewed by Martin Zaltz Austwick
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Modelling the magnetic fields of exoplanets
Spectral analysis reveals details of stellar winds and planetary atmospheres
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How to deal with the data deluge from big science
Planned big-science facilities are set to generate more data than all the global Internet traffic combined. Jon Cartwright finds out how scientists will manage the flood
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Upgrade set for dark-matter detector
XENON1T will begin taking data next year
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Hunting gravitational waves using pulsars
Louise Mayor reports on the search for these ripples in space–time
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The sound man
Join acoustical physicist Trevor Cox on his "scientific odyssey of sound"
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