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
Read article: Austrian physicists protest at CERN pull-out
Online petition started as up to 170 particle physicists could be affected
Read article: Web life: Hyperphysics
So what is the site about? Hyperphysics is a network of cross-linked articles on topics from acceleration to the Zeeman effect — essentially an online physics encyclopedia. Unlike some sites fea...
Read article: Riding the red dragon
Western universities have long welcomed visiting students and academics from the Far East. Now China’s ascendance offers career opportunities for researchers like Ian Broadwell wh...
Read article: Doing science in the open
Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration
Read article: Riding the storm out
A career in severe-weather research offers flexibility and plenty of opportunities to experience the fascinating physics of the rotating fluid called the atmosphere. Josh Wurman
