Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Searching for microfibres in the snow, differential equations make the world go round, Isaac Newton first edition found while house clearing
Developing sensors that enable autonomous vehicles to cope with tough weather conditions is tricky – and the economics may be more challenging still
Read article: Raining on the parade of self-driving cars
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: Overlooked for the Nobel: Lise Meitner
Reflecting on 14 years of Nobel coverage
Read article: Nobel prize sizzle: building excitement in the run-up to the physics award
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: D-Wave launches 5000 qubit system, solar-powered nanobeads could clean-up oil sands waste
Should Chien-Shiung Wu have shared the 1957 Nobel prize for her measurement of parity violation?
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: Chien-Shiung Wu
The October 2020 issue of your favourite magazine examines the benefits of virtual meetings
Read article: Online conferences, auxetic materials and a new kind of rocket engine: the October 2020 issue of Physics World is now out
Could the Nobel committee have included Nicola Cabibbo for the 2008 prize?
Read article: Overlooked for the Nobel: Nicola Cabibbo
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: Overlooked for the Nobel: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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
