Laura Hiscott introduces three key areas of employment where physicists can tackle the world’s environmental challenges
Read article: Green jobs for physics graduates: opportunities to help build a sustainable future
Felicia Green and Anna Simmonds unveil the ambitious biological mass spectrometry programme at the Rosalind Franklin Institute
Read article: Imaging metabolism in action
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: The enduring mystery of the solar corona
Wolfgang Huber on being a physicist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and his contribution to the life sciences
Read article: From statistical physics to bioinformatics: using data science for biological discoveries
Achintya Rao looks at free and open-source software used in physics research, and its role in the wider open-science movement
Read article: Standing on the shoulders of programmers: the power of free and open-source software
Laura Hiscott speaks to Claire Houghton, an early-career physicist who did summer internships at Kurt J Lesker and Adaptix
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 Marion Cromb, a physics PhD student who did an internship every summer of their undergraduate degree
Read article: Summer internships: Marion Cromb – ‘I learnt good coding practice, and the code was actually sold to customers at the end’
Vacuum specialists are working with production engineers to make lithium-ion battery manufacturing more efficient, as Susan Curtis reports
Read article: Process innovations benefit battery manufacture
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: Twists, turns, thrills and spills: the physics of rollercoasters
Laura Hiscott speaks to Constantine Pelesis, an early-career physicist who did a summer internship at medical-physics company Adaptix
Read article: Summer internships: Constantine Pelesis – ‘I built up my network and got an understanding of how a whole company works together’
