Fast neutrons from cosmic-ray showers can cause significant errors in supercomputers. Physicists hope to measure the problem and protect devices, says Rachel Brazil
Extra funding for science and technology at the UK's Ministry of Defence has created an urgent need for physicists as well as scientists and engineers from all backgrounds
Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope explains how researchers are still unearthing new scientific insights into plant motion, which could lead to novel, bio-inspired robotic structures
Why were physicists wrong about the size of the proton for so long? As Edwin Cartlidge explains, it is about bureaucracy and politics as much as physics