Sidney Perkowitz on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, from her stellar astronomical findings to her struggle with bias against women in the early 20th century
Read article: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars
A new synchrotron-imaging technique is helping researchers shed a new light on human anatomy. Jon Cartwright zooms in
Read article: Drawing up a ‘Google Earth’ of the human body
Laura Hiscott speaks to Perdi Potgieter, a research scientist at NPL who left school at 16 to do an apprenticeship
Read article: Off the beaten track: from school straight to working on the national physical standards
The MYRRHA project in Belgium is seeking enthusiastic scientists, engineers and project managers with a talent for cross-disciplinary collaboration
Read article: Cutting-edge accelerator technologies are key to success for the MYRRHA research reactor
Untrainable circuits, “barren plateaus” and deceptive local minimas may prevent the use of quantum-enhanced optimization, as Pradeep Niroula explains
Read article: Conquering the challenge of quantum optimization
From quantum technology to green jobs, Physics World Careers 2022 showcases the range of career options open to physicists
Read article: Physics World Careers 2022 guide is now out
Alexander Mendelsohn wonders why the mental-health system lacks the quantitative rigour that physics benefits from
Read article: A physicist’s experience of the mental-health system
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: Time for a change: what it’s like to win a prize for work you did before switching careers
Sofia Sheikh is one of a handful of postdoctoral researchers who have specialized in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Read article: Meet the technosignature researcher on the lookout for exo-civilizations
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: Sonifying science: from an amino acid scale to a spider silk symphony
