Read article: Once a physicist: Conrad C Lautenbacher Jr
Retired US Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C Lautenbacher Jr served as the administrator of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 2001 to 2008
Read article: Scientists in the newsroom
Media fellowships can help physicists improve the way they communicate their results to the outside world, as Helen Czerski describes
Read article: Web life: Planet SciCast
Bite-size videos about science
Read article: Fledgling site challenges arXiv server
New preprint site appears amid claims that arXiv administrators unfairly reject papers
Read article: Web life: Foldit
How protein folding can be fun
Read article: Tools for learning
Some instruments in teaching laboratories may look old-fashioned, but those wooden boxes can hold surprisingly advanced equipment. George Herold describes his career designing exper...
Read article: Don’t panic
The job market for new graduates and career-changers in 2009 is not great, but physicists may be better equipped than most, as Margaret Harris explains
Read article: Web life: Phun
So what is the site about? Phun is a free, downloadable physics-simulation programme that bills itself as a “2D physics sandbox”. The programme’s limitless virtual space allows users...
Read article: The power of robotics
Robotics competitions supply a vital missing link in science and engineering education, says Robert P Crease
Read article: Particle physics – it matters, say UK policy makers
Report details the economic and social benefits of particle physics
