While theorists have been battling to understand high-temperature superconductivity, industry is developing devices ready for a global marketplace potentially worth billions of dollars
Read article: Industry warms to superconductors
The origin of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprate materials is one of the biggest puzzles in physics, explain Bertram Batlogg and Chandra Varma
Read article: The underdoped phase of cuprate superconductors
Experiments deep underground are searching for new particles that could simultaneously solve one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and reveal wha's beyond the Standard Model of particle physics
Read article: The search for dark matter
Although the basic building blocks of matter and their interactions have been placed on a firm theoretical footing, many fundamental questions remain unanswered and await the experiments of the future
Read article: Particle physics: the next generation
Our understanding of the universe has advanced immeasurably in the last century, and there seems no end to the wealth of new discoveries as we approach the next millennium
Read article: Astrophysics and cosmology: the golden age
Advances in nanotechnology, information science and molecular biology continue at a rapid rate and are poised to spark a series of industrial revolutions in the next millennium
Read article: Industrial revolutions in the 21st century
What happens when you ask some of the world's leading physicists seven questions about the past, present and future of physics?
Read article: Physics: past, present, future
Quantum mechanics is the most accurate theory we have to describe the world, but there is still much about it that we do not fully understand
Read article: Quantum theory: weird and wonderful
Joseph Rotblat says scientists need to accept responsibility for the human and environmental consequences of their research,.
Read article: The social conscience of scientists
I I Rabi's work on the magnetic properties of nuclei, including the development of nuclear magnetic resonance, and his role as a peace campaigner during the Cold War have had profound and far-reaching...
Read article: Isidor Isaac Rabi: walking the path of God
