Mike Follows explains why his life as a physics teacher in Birmingham, UK, has become "pretty surreal"
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Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Backpack computers for small animals, decade of LHC physics in numbers, post-manuscript-submission press conference
Sam Vennin is impressed by the collaborations developing between research groups and predicts that research will emerge from the current situation deeply transformed
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘My workplace probably looks more like a war zone now’
Atomic physicist Hannah Williams would normally be fixing lasers and machinery in her lab outside Paris. With France on lockdown, she’s searching for alternatives
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘My job is not amenable to working from home’
Understanding the virus behind COVID-19, studying diamond electronics and living in a zero-carbon world
Read article: Beating COVID-19: the April 2020 issue of Physics World is now out
As a scientist, Charles Curry believes he should help the public understand evidence-based policies for controlling COVID-19
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Watching a phenomenon of staggering scope unfold in real time, dictated by simple mathematics’
The Physics World team celebrates April Fool’s Day with genuine tales of idiocy from our archives
Read article: Physicists doing stupid things
PhD student Lucy Rowlands is creating an ever-expanding list of experiments to do when she can return to the lab
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Scientists don’t live in a vacuum’
Bill Atkinson reflects on how closing Trent University has affected his students
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘I learned that my students miss the structure and support that the university provides’
For nanoscience PhD student Haley Harrison, a welcome chance to catch up on writing, analysis and family time coexists uneasily with concerns about health and finances
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘I’m worried about paying for medical treatment’
