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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Research fellowships target clean-energy innovation
Toyota has joined forces with The Electrochemical Society to support young scientists and engineers
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A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
With the James Webb Space Telescope finally launched, Keith Cooper explores the mission’s troubled past, its technological advances and the exciting future of astronomy
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How to prepare for a career in the emerging quantum-technology industry
Laura Hiscott talks to experts who have studied the quantum-tech jobs market about what’s on offer and what skills you’ll need to forge a successful career in this area
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Sensing gravity, the quantum way
Michael Allen explains the technology that goes into building a quantum gravity sensor, and its multitude of uses in research and industry
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