Space engineer takes over as head of the MIT Media Lab
Dava Newman, an expert in the human exploration of space, became the lab's director on 1 July
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James Peebles: a life in cosmology
Nobel laureate and cosmologist James Peebles from Princeton University on winning the prize, cosmological models and his new book
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Ask me anything: Jim Al-Khalili – ‘I find quantum mechanics endlessly rewarding, fascinating and frustrating’
Careers advice from Jim Al-Khalili, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Surrey and award-winning science communicator
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Catherine Heymans appointed first female Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Astrophysicist becomes the first woman to hold top Scottish job since its foundation in 1834
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Reaching for Mars: advice for realizing the biggest dreams
Andrew Glester reviews Dream Big: How to Reach for Your Stars by Abigail Harrison
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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