Hamish Johnston wonders how tightly you can pack people in a park, while maintaining social distancing
Read article: Lattice layabout in the park: an epitaxial guide to social distancing
Should ATLAS, CMS and LHC physicists have shared some of the 2013 prize?
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: the CERN physicists who discovered the Higgs boson
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Watch a wobbling black-hole shadow, ‘π planet’ has 3.14 day orbit, retracting racist and sexist papers
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Curved toes point to sore feet, the chaos of the knuckleball
Gunnar Moeller from the University of Kent in the UK describes how this year's Condensed Matter Physics in the City was turned into an online-only event
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Our event had grown from a hub for the UK to a truly global event within a matter of days’
Tirthraj Adhikari, a radiation oncology physicist at the BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital in Nepal, discusses treating cancer patients during the pandemic
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Cancer patients in Nepal have been affected miserably by this COVID-19 pandemic’
The strengths and limitations of robot journalism were debated at the recent European Conference of Science Journalism
Read article: Will AI bots ever replace science journalists? (And no, this was written by a human)
Physics teacher Resty C Collado finds ways to keep students from turning into mindless "Zoombies" during online-only classes
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘I took it upon myself to keep my classes alive, even if lessons had to be conducted via Zoom’
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: The best way to slice a watermelon, how to float yourself with balloons, shining light on whisky
Discover how China is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic in this year's free-to-read China Briefing
Read article: The Physics World China Briefing is now out
