Read article: Reaching for Mars: advice for realizing the biggest dreams
Reaching for Mars: advice for realizing the biggest dreams
Andrew Glester reviews Dream Big: How to Reach for Your Stars by Abigail Harrison
Read article: Reaching for Mars: advice for realizing the biggest dreams
Read article: Ask me anything: Tim Gershon
Ask me anything: Tim Gershon
Careers tips from a professor of physics at the University of Warwick who studies flavour physics, CP violation and heavy-quark physics
Read article: Japanese Nobel-prize-winning semiconductor pioneer Isamu Akasaki dies aged 92
Japanese Nobel-prize-winning semiconductor pioneer Isamu Akasaki dies aged 92
Akasaki was instrumental in the creation of blue LEDs in the 1980s and 1990s that led to a wide range of applications
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘We’ve been surprised at how easy it’s become to do high-level experiments from our homes’
Physics in the pandemic: ‘We’ve been surprised at how easy it’s become to do high-level experiments from our homes’
After COVID made crowded control rooms hazardous, Ben Penaflor and colleagues at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility developed work-arounds
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘I took inspiration from the healthcare sector and brought in a therapist for my lab’
Physics in the pandemic: ‘I took inspiration from the healthcare sector and brought in a therapist for my lab’
Andrea Armani describes how setting up weekly sessions with an external mental health expert has helped her students cope in a radically altered research environment
Read article: Ask me anything: Erik Bakkers
Ask me anything: Erik Bakkers
Erik Bakkers is professor of advanced nanomaterials and devices at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands
Read article: Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Martinus Veltman dies aged 89
Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Martinus Veltman dies aged 89
The work of Martinus Veltman was instrumental in understanding the weak interaction in particle physics
Read article: Ask me anything: Carol Marsh
Ask me anything: Carol Marsh
Carol Marsh is deputy head of electronics engineering at aerospace engineering company Leonardo
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘my winter solstice in Latvia will be a time of reflection’
Physics in the pandemic: ‘my winter solstice in Latvia will be a time of reflection’
Planetary scientist Amara Graps reflects on how a country that began the pandemic “ahead of the curve” ended up so far behind
Read article: Aspiring astronaut and Space Age ambassador
Aspiring astronaut and Space Age ambassador
Andrew Glester reviews Not Necessarily Rocket Science: a Beginner’s Guide to Life in the Space Age by Kellie Gerardi
