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
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)
