Read article: Finance under pressure
The concept of “pressure” in materials processing makes a useful analogy for the many ways that start-ups can seek funding, writes Matthew Cohen of the venture capital firm Pangaea Ventures
Read article: Seeing the unseeable: the impact and legacy of the first black-hole images
Matin Durrani savours the latest discovery in our seemingly never-ending "golden age" of astronomy
Read article: Seven rules for nanotech innovation
Serial entrepreneur Tim Harper shares lessons from 20 years of good, bad and (occasionally) ugly experiences of starting and running nanotech businesses
Read article: Can crude analysis alone determine prospects for energy materials?
Neil Beattie describes some of the economic and political factors that impact developments of renewable energy materials and technologies besides the cost of crude oil
Read article: Hi-tech firms seek clarity amid Brexit confusion
Leaders of the UK's industrial-physics community eye up their options as the country prepares to leave the European Union
Read article: Shedding light on XHV-capable materials
A collaboration between industry and the US national measurement laboratory is quantifying the comparative performance of extreme-high-vacuum technologies
Read article: Design evolution yields streamlined positioning platform for ultrahigh vacuum
UHV Design’s latest generation of sample positioners has been designed to combine high precision with a more compact footprint
Read article: Proton therapy on an upward trajectory
The UK’s proton therapy community is at the forefront of international efforts to drive standardization and verification of new treatment facilities. Joe McEntee reports
Read article: Carbon fascination endures in nanoscience
From the gargantuan Nanotech 2019 exhibition and conferences at Tokyo Big Sight to research labs around Tokyo, we look at the ever-enduring attraction of carbon at the nanoscale
Read article: Physicists await Japanese government decision on the International Linear Collider
A verdict whether to build the 20 km collider is expected to be made next month
