Read article: Raining on the parade of self-driving cars
Developing sensors that enable autonomous vehicles to cope with tough weather conditions is tricky – and the economics may be more challenging still
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: Lise Meitner
Disciplinary bias and a stew of other prejudices helped deny the physicist Lise Meitner a share of the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Read article: Nobel prize sizzle: building excitement in the run-up to the physics award
Reflecting on 14 years of Nobel coverage
Read article: D-Wave launches 5000 qubit system, solar-powered nanobeads could clean-up oil sands waste
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: Chien-Shiung Wu
Should Chien-Shiung Wu have shared the 1957 Nobel prize for her measurement of parity violation?
Read article: Online conferences, auxetic materials and a new kind of rocket engine: the October 2020 issue of Physics World is now out
The October 2020 issue of your favourite magazine examines the benefits of virtual meetings
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: Nicola Cabibbo
Could the Nobel committee have included Nicola Cabibbo for the 2008 prize?
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell says she missed out on a Nobel prize for the discovery of pulsars because she was a student at the time, but did gender play a role?
Read article: Lattice layabout in the park: an epitaxial guide to social distancing
Hamish Johnston wonders how tightly you can pack people in a park, while maintaining social distancing
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: the CERN physicists who discovered the Higgs boson
Should ATLAS, CMS and LHC physicists have shared some of the 2013 prize?
