Read article: Fireworks, festive reads and fun with quantum games: check out the December 2018 issue of Physics World
To celebrate another year drawing to a close, Physics World has a sizzling issue to help 2018 go out with a bang
Read article: Fascinating physics facts about snow, Feynman’s Nobel medal up for auction, magnetic levitation makes a comeback
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Christmas competition
Win a copy of Stephen Hawking's new book in our festive physics-jumper competition
Read article: ESRF marks 30 years at the forefront of X-ray science
In 1988 the research ministers of 11 European countries signed the documents that formally created the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Read article: A Monkee visits Fermilab, physics of stir frying, six strange facts about ‘Oumuamua
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Know your boundaries to progress materials science
As materials science reaps sustained rewards from focusing on interfaces, researchers can now access a technical note to guide them through modelling these systems
Read article: This article is based on fictional events
David Boyt explains how Lars von Trier's 2011 film Melancholia inspired a real scientific paper on climate in the journal Nonlinearity
Read article: Ambient amides take nitrogen chemistry beyond Haber–Bosch
Catalysts that can break the super-strong nitrogen bond under ambient conditions provide an uncontroversial success story for nitrogen chemists
Read article: Zond 6 recording translated by graphene laureate, architects with an extra 37 minutes on Mars
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Benchtop cosmology exploits solid-state systems
Weyl metals and all their fascinating phenomena are not the only systems for cosmological simulations
