Read article: Off the beaten track: from school straight to working on the national physical standards
Laura Hiscott speaks to Perdi Potgieter, a research scientist at NPL who left school at 16 to do an apprenticeship
Read article: Cutting-edge accelerator technologies are key to success for the MYRRHA research reactor
The MYRRHA project in Belgium is seeking enthusiastic scientists, engineers and project managers with a talent for cross-disciplinary collaboration
Read article: Conquering the challenge of quantum optimization
Untrainable circuits, “barren plateaus” and deceptive local minimas may prevent the use of quantum-enhanced optimization, as Pradeep Niroula explains
Read article: Physics World Careers 2022 guide is now out
From quantum technology to green jobs, Physics World Careers 2022 showcases the range of career options open to physicists
Read article: A physicist’s experience of the mental-health system
Alexander Mendelsohn wonders why the mental-health system lacks the quantitative rigour that physics benefits from
Read article: Time for a change: what it’s like to win a prize for work you did before switching careers
Akihiro Kojima and Mike Lee, winners of the 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, on developing new materials for solar cells and switching into different career areas
Read article: Meet the technosignature researcher on the lookout for exo-civilizations
Sofia Sheikh is one of a handful of postdoctoral researchers who have specialized in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Read article: Sonifying science: from an amino acid scale to a spider silk symphony
Markus Buehler and Mario Milazzo explain how they have been able to explore new avenues of research by translating living structures into sound
Read article: Going global: the world the Web has wrought
Michael Riordan reveals how physicists and programmers played important roles in shaping the current wave of globalization
Read article: Studying physics to improve healthcare systems
Suman Shrestha, who is doing a PhD in medical physics in the US, on why he wants to return to Nepal with his new-found skills and expertise
