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...
Read article: The promise of silicon photonics
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...
Read article: Einstein in Oxford
Joe McEntee reports on a Europe-wide effort to develop and commercialize better methods of detecting a deadly and increasingly common disease
Read article: Optical physics collaboration targets early oesophageal cancer diagnosis
Research labs can be some of the worst environmental offenders in terms of the waste they create and the energy they use. Ben Skuse details efforts to make science greener
Read article: Leading by example: going green in the lab
Louise Murray looks at how scientists are using acoustics to learn more about pelagic thresher sharks’ behaviour and how to better protect them
Read article: Listening for sharks
Industrial physicist Susanne Klein talks about crossing boundaries between industry and academia; theoretical and experimental research; and science and art
Read article: The art of continuous transformation
Joe McEntee looks at the hurdles that need to be cleared before "bionanosensors" can detect harmful micro-organisms faster, quicker and more cheaply than ever before
Read article: Nanoparticles home in on infectious diseases
Marric Stephens explains how an update to a mission to monitor fresh water is also helping with plans for a space-based gravitational-wave detector
Read article: Weighing water from space
Lincoln Carr explains how he's helping science students embrace the ambiguity of the humanities to become better researchers
Read article: Learning to be astonished
Ralf Kaiser and David Mahon on using muon tomography systems to “see” inside complex, shielded structures, such as drums containing nuclear waste
Read article: Seeing past the ordinary
