Read article: Green jobs for physics graduates: opportunities to help build a sustainable future
Laura Hiscott introduces three key areas of employment where physicists can tackle the world’s environmental challenges
Read article: Imaging metabolism in action
Felicia Green and Anna Simmonds unveil the ambitious biological mass spectrometry programme at the Rosalind Franklin Institute
Read article: The enduring mystery of the solar corona
The Sun’s magnetic fields make its corona much hotter than the surface of the star. But how and why is still a mystery, as Philip G Judge explains
Read article: From statistical physics to bioinformatics: using data science for biological discoveries
Wolfgang Huber on being a physicist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and his contribution to the life sciences
Read article: Standing on the shoulders of programmers: the power of free and open-source software
Achintya Rao looks at free and open-source software used in physics research, and its role in the wider open-science movement
Read article: Summer internships: Claire Houghton – ‘I got to see real scientific experiments, where no-one knows exactly what’s going to happen’
Laura Hiscott speaks to Claire Houghton, an early-career physicist who did summer internships at Kurt J Lesker and Adaptix
Read article: Summer internships: Marion Cromb – ‘I learnt good coding practice, and the code was actually sold to customers at the end’
Laura Hiscott speaks to Marion Cromb, a physics PhD student who did an internship every summer of their undergraduate degree
Read article: Process innovations benefit battery manufacture
Vacuum specialists are working with production engineers to make lithium-ion battery manufacturing more efficient, as Susan Curtis reports
Read article: Twists, turns, thrills and spills: the physics of rollercoasters
There is much more physics at play than simply gravity and speed when it comes to the thrill of rollercoasters, as Michael Allen discovers
Read article: Summer internships: Constantine Pelesis – ‘I built up my network and got an understanding of how a whole company works together’
Laura Hiscott speaks to Constantine Pelesis, an early-career physicist who did a summer internship at medical-physics company Adaptix
