Personalities Opinion and reviews Francis Crick: a life of twists and turns Andrew Robinson reviews Crick: a Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain by Matthew Cobb Read article: Francis Crick: a life of twists and turns
History Feature Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him Gustaf Dalén is nowhere near as famous as his contemporaries, but does that make him undeserving of the prize? Margaret Harris investigates Read article: Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him
Personalities Opinion and reviews So you think you know Roger Penrose? Be prepared to be shocked Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss Read article: So you think you know Roger Penrose? Be prepared to be shocked
Particle and nuclear Blog Mark Thomson and Jung Cao: a changing of the guard in particle physics Two significant appointments mark a new era for global high-energy physics Read article: Mark Thomson and Jung Cao: a changing of the guard in particle physics
Cryptography Blog How Albert Einstein and John Bell inspired Artur Ekert’s breakthrough in quantum cryptography The quantum physicist gives the Royal Society Milner Prize Lecture Read article: How Albert Einstein and John Bell inspired Artur Ekert’s breakthrough in quantum cryptography
Artificial intelligence Blog AI enters the fold with the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics: Matin Durrani is pleased that the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics brings AI under physicists' wing Read article: AI enters the fold with the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics:
Personalities Blog Gems from the Physics World archive: Isaac Asimov Science-fiction fans in the Physics World team have a clear favourite from 36 years of articles Read article: Gems from the Physics World archive: Isaac Asimov
Cosmology Blog Roger Penrose: the Nobel laureate with a preference for transparencies over slideshows Tushna Commissariat recounts a fascinating chat with Roger Penrose Read article: Roger Penrose: the Nobel laureate with a preference for transparencies over slideshows
Particles and interactions Interview Peter Higgs didn’t like talking about himself. Here’s what he told us about CERN, collaboration and his career Peter Higgs discusses his career in physics with Matin Durrani in an interview recorded in 2012 Read article: Peter Higgs didn’t like talking about himself. Here’s what he told us about CERN, collaboration and his career
Personalities Interview Keith Burnett: ‘I have this absolute commitment that the broader we are, the more powerful physics will be’ Keith Burnett discusses his career, the power of diversity and the value of universities to society Read article: Keith Burnett: ‘I have this absolute commitment that the broader we are, the more powerful physics will be’