Devices with a more highly curved spiral arm or two spiral arms that mimic hand kneading could produce a better-quality dough
Read article: Bread machines get a much-kneaded physics makeover
Mathematical model puts new constraints on fundamental sensing limits
Read article: How well can biological cells sense their environment?
Unlike humans, ants maintain flow even in crowded conditions
Read article: Self-regulating behaviour helps ants avoid traffic jams
The physicist and Mathematica creator reflects on how computational tools have changed in the past 30 years, and on the role that computational thinking plays in physics
Read article: Exploring the computational universe with Stephen Wolfram
Louis Nemzer describes how studying the physics of the brain could help people with epilepsy by predicting the onset of seizures
Read article: Treating epilepsy with physics
The September 2019 issue of Physics World is now out in print and digital formats
Read article: The physics of epilepsy, drones to monitor Chernobyl, and the ‘model-independent’ approach to particle physics
A talk about world travel patterns at the APS March meeting raises fascinating questions about how and where people choose to go
Read article: Mapping the network of international tourism
Feature in the March issue of Physics World investigates the dark side of social media
Read article: Physics helps to model online terrorist activity
Neil Johnson explains how physics can be used to find groups supporting terror, extremism and hate on social media
Read article: The dark side of social media
Simulations uncover signatures in gravitational-wave spectra of a postulated phase transition in neutron star mergers
Read article: Gravitational waves could reveal the birth of a quark star
