Read article: Catherine Heymans appointed first female Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Astrophysicist becomes the first woman to hold top Scottish job since its foundation in 1834
Read article: 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: 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
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’
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’
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
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
The work of Martinus Veltman was instrumental in understanding the weak interaction in particle physics
Read article: 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’
Planetary scientist Amara Graps reflects on how a country that began the pandemic “ahead of the curve” ended up so far behind
