Read article: SUPA power: Scottish universities combine forces to boost research and training
Interconnected graduate school allows hundreds of physics PhD students to access more than 800 hours of lectures across 50 advanced specialist physics courses
Read article: Skills for start-ups
Physicist-for-hire Volker Türck shares his tips, experience and successes, when it comes to setting up a a scientific consultancy service
Read article: The search for silicon’s successor
In today's solar-PV market, silicon is king. Will later generations of materials ever steal its crown? Jon Major assesses their chances
Read article: Seeing through a glass, darkly
Solar windows could make buildings "greener", but past attempts to commercialize the technology have run into obstacles. Will the latest efforts succeed?
Read article: It’s all smoots and garns
From a human ruler to a space-sickness scale, Stephen Ornes looks at how some of the oddest and most surreal units came to exist
Read article: Cool innovations for clean energy
Cryogenics firms are developing novel ways of using liquid air, nitrogen and methane to store renewably-generated energy and reduce emissions
Read article: A brief history of timekeeping
Helen Margolis discusses how humans have been trying to measure time with increasing accuracy for centuries, and how the next step in that quest is the optical atomic clock
Read article: SI gets a makeover
A key meeting this month is likely to see all SI units defined for the first time in terms of fundamental constants. Benjamin Skuse explains the change
Read article: Beyond the lithium-ion battery
Engineering a sustainable, electrified future means developing materials with properties that surpass those found in current technologies
Read article: A wave of discovery
James Hough tells the story of the last 30 years of gravitational-wave astronomy, which has had a revolutionary impact
