Read article: A glassy solution to nuclear waste
Ancient glass is not just of interest to historians and archaeologists – it may also hold the key to understanding the durability of vitrified nuclear waste. Rachel Brazil investigates
Read article: Blown away by the wonders of glass at Corning’s spectacular museum
Robert P Crease visits the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York, which claims to house the largest collection of glass art and artefacts in the world
Read article: Five glassy mysteries we still can’t explain: from metallic glasses to unexpected analogues
Glasses are much more mysterious than their crystalline counterparts, yet have a wealth of practical uses, says Jon Cartwright
Read article: Glass: a transparent tool for a fairer planet
James Dacey describes how the 2022 International Year of Glass will celebrate the universality of this see-through super material
Read article: Concerning primordial black holes
If primordial black holes exist, could one strike the Earth and if one did, what would happen? Ian Randall investigates
Read article: The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron
The University of Liverpool’s synchrocyclotron helped define physics in the 20th century, yet little trace of it remains. Rob Lea looks into the history of this lost machine
Read article: Seeing the Earth through alien eyes: an extraterrestrial view of our planet
Working out what aliens might see if they pointed their telescopes at us could help in our quest for finding life on distant Earth-like planets, as James Romero explains
Read article: Demons to think with: the rebels you mustn’t ignore
Robert P Crease explains how these little creatures have inspired him to create a university course that should appeal to humanities and science students alike
Read article: Lia Li: the physicist unlocking navigation technology
Lia Li is an award-winning start-up founder bringing optomechanical sensors to consumers
Read article: Time crystals: the search for a new phase of matter
Pedram Roushan, from Google’s Quantum AI team, describes this elusive form of matter – and how it could be simulated on the company’s Sycamore quantum processor
