Celebrating a Twitter project that links all the elements in the periodic table with anecdotes about their histories, uses and properties, in honour of the International Year of the Periodic Table
Read article: Tales of the 118 elements
Confusion as many top performing Centres for Doctoral Training are discontinued without explanation
Read article: ‘Dismay’ as cuts hit major UK PhD training programme
Physicists have much to celebrate as the world marks Dmitri Mendeleev's creation of the first periodic table in 1869
Read article: Scientists celebrate 150 years of the periodic table at UNESCO headquarters in Paris
Graduate Record Examination also found to discriminate against under-represented groups
Read article: US graduate entry exams not a predictor of PhD success, says study
Article on the importance to Chinese society of fundamental condensed-matter physics picks up $2000 prize
Read article: Harvard physicist Liujun Zou wins inaugural Physics World science-communication award
Interconnected graduate school allows hundreds of physics PhD students to access more than 800 hours of lectures across 50 advanced specialist physics courses
Read article: SUPA power: Scottish universities combine forces to boost research and training
Peter McDonald and James West discuss the benefits of a programme that prepares PhD physics students for opportunities outside academia
Read article: Lessons learned from creating a physics graduate school
Report states that more inclusive programmes can advance learning
Read article: Citizen-science projects should be more diverse, says panel
From noisy seaweed to climate change poetry, there have been many approaches, as the Engaging Environments symposium in Bristol revealed
Read article: Getting engaged: what encourages the public to marry up with environmental research?
Paul Hardaker, chief executive of the Institute of Physics, on the vital but changing remit for learned societies
Read article: The future for learned societies
