Read article: Robert Oppenheimer: how cinema has depicted this icon of the nuclear age
Sidney Perkowitz casts his eye over Oppenheimer and other movies that have depicted the horrors of atomic bombs
Read article: The laws of division: physicists probe into the polarization of political opinions
Anna Demming digs into the physics of political polarization
Read article: Thomas Young: prolific polymath and unassuming genius
Martin Rees on the legacy of Thomas Young and his discoveries across the arts and sciences
Read article: Plug me in: the physics of brain–computer interfaces
Developments in neurotechnology, biophysics and material science are helping to advance the technology that can link your brain to a computer
Read article: Powering the green economy: the quest for magnets without rare earths
James McKenzie describes the search for new magnets that do away with controversial “rare-earth” elements entirely
Read article: Spinning a sustainable fashion revolution: meet the physicists turning wood into clothes
Physicist and entrepreneur Janne Poranen on transforming cellulose into clothing, to combat the environmental impact of the textile industry
Read article: Colder: how physicists beat the theoretical limit for laser cooling and laid the foundations for a quantum revolution
No experiment ever works better than theory says it should, but that’s exactly what happened in atomic physics in the late 1980s, as Chad Orzel describes
Read article: Zircons, plate tectonics and the mystery of life
James Dacey reports how new data from ancient crystals could transform our understanding of life on Earth
Read article: What’s the matter with condensed matter? Getting past the relative obscurity of solid-state physics in the public eye
James Kakalios on the condensed-matter physics popularity problem and how to fix it
Read article: Cold: how physicists learned to manipulate and move particles with laser cooling
The early history of laser cooling is a tale of three Nobel prizes and plenty of hard work, as Chad Orzel reveals
