Midwinter looking bleak? Have some festive cheer with this physics quiz
Brighten your days with this fun holiday-themed quiz
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Resolving the ‘squoon’, and other irregular satellites
Nicholas Porter delves into the physics of a fictional, wonky satellite
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Big data meets Beethoven’s metronome, astronomy gets a badass new acronym
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Physics in the pandemic: ‘Our mission was to include young nuclear physicists wherever they were in the world’
Nuclear physicist David Jenkins discovers the benefits of running a successful conference series for young scientists in an online format
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Learning the lessons from the Haiyuan quake 100 years on
The day “the mountains walked” destroyed several cities in China and killed 230,000 people
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Physics in the pandemic: ‘my winter solstice in Latvia will be a time of reflection’
Planetary scientist Amara Graps reflects on how a country that began the pandemic “ahead of the curve” ended up so far behind
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The music of protein folding, the Journal of Star Trek
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Things we don’t know about Uranus (and Neptune)
Ice giant planets are common in the galaxy, and the ones in our own solar system still hold plenty of mysteries
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Quantum weirdness, smart speakers, festive books: the December 2020 issue of Physics World is now out
Enjoy the latest issue of your favourite magazine, which is now out in print and digital formats
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Quantum tunnelling video bags teen $250,000 scholarship, how to win a horse race
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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