Ready, set, bake
Rahul Mandal, a metrology researcher, talks about how his scientific thinking helped him become a baker and win The Great British Bake Off in 2018
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Additive manufacturing makes vacuum systems smaller, lighter and smarter
For quantum technologies to fulfil their promise, the systems that support them need to shrink. Laurence Coles explains how additive manufacturing could make it possible
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Diamonds are a physicist’s best friend
Pascal Gallo, chief executive of LakeDiamond, on his career in quantum physics and crystal growth, and what goes into setting up a successful company
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Giant leaps for knowledge
Apollo 11 was just the first of five further Apollo missions to land on the Moon. Sue Nelson explores their scientific legacy
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How high the Moon
Half a century after the historic Apollo 11 landing on 20 July 1969, Robert P Crease explains why the mission’s lunar laser ranging experiment is alive and well
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Exploring the far side
Ling Xin examines how the Chinese mission Chang’e-4 could reveal the Moon's far-side secrets
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What’s in a moon?
We all take the Moon for granted, but what would happen if our constant companion weren't there any more? Ethan Siegel considers the consequences
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A versatile technology
Julia Zimmermann talks about how her desire to develop applications for cold atmospheric plasmas led her to co-found a family of companies
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The promise of silicon photonics
Scott Jordan outlines how improved optical positioning technologies could help usher in an era when photons, not electrons, are the dominant medium for information transfer within computers a...
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Einstein in Oxford
Andrew Robinson reveals why Albert Einstein travelled to Britain on three occasions in the early 1930s – and how he shocked his audience in Oxford with his new thinking about how science work...
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