Cruise-ship physics, the many ways to tie a tie, shaken-up carbon dating and more
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Cold city, hot science
The 2014 AAAS meeting gets going in Chicago
Beauty is in the eye of the mathematician
Equations trigger the same part of the brain as great works of art
Embracing the materials world
Meet the editors behind a trio of new materials-science journals
Intelligent life on a doughnut, how cats and skiers spin, a marriage made at CERN and more
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Giving the public access to research
Library users in the UK now have access to 8000 academic journals
Celebrating Louis Essen and the birth of atomic time
Plaque unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory
Super Bowl, super-chilled leeches, a black hole cake and more
Excerpts from the Red Folder
The February 2014 issue of Physics World is out now
The NSA keys into quantum computing, "fictional" models in science, spikes in your ice tray and much more
Life on Mars?
A lawsuit calls on NASA to investigate a "mushroom-like fungus" spotted on the red planet
