Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Laser paints a mini masterpiece, counting bubbles in a glass of beer, Jane Austen written in oligomers
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Whitest paint ever could keep your house cool, space fridge could store better food for astronauts
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Sweet taste of heavy water, raindrops falling on other planets
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Space wine, ESA astronaut call, April Fool’s round-up
After COVID made crowded control rooms hazardous, Ben Penaflor and colleagues at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility developed work-arounds
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘We’ve been surprised at how easy it’s become to do high-level experiments from our homes’
How infrared spectrometers and frequency combs are measuring methane emissions from cattle, plus super-efficient solar cells and a century of nuclear isomers
Read article: Measuring methane from cows: the April 2021 issue of Physics World is now out
Andrew Ferguson took a muon detector project into UK schools – and kept the study going despite COVID-19 restrictions
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: making particles from space tangible for schoolkids
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Alan Turing £50 note is unveiled, how to get a mortgage on the Moon
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: World’s smallest origami bird, why hummingbirds hum, physics meeting ‘ain’t got that swing’
Laura Hiscott found an atmosphere of collaboration at the fourth Women in Quantum Summit
Read article: Women scientists join forces at online quantum summit
