Read article: From physics to environmental science: a natural evolution?
Kate Ravilious talks to three researchers who are using their "physics mindset" to bring a fresh outlook on the earth sciences
Read article: My invisible battle
Mental-health awareness is improving, but the story of a theoretical physicist with bipolar disorder highlights that the academic community may not be keeping up
Read article: Superconductivity – pairing up with nanotechnology
Nanostructures remain crucial both in attempts to better understand superconductivity, as well as efforts to apply it
Read article: Tales from a British physicist in Japan
Elizabeth Tasker details the good, the bad and the confusing of working as a physicist in Japan
Read article: Looking – into the future
With age comes failing eyesight, but Helen Gleeson hopes her team’s research into liquid-crystal contact lenses that can switch focus may provide a solution
Read article: The long road to Mars
Stephen Ornes explores the technological and physiological challenges facing scientists as they endeavour to get humans to the red planet by the 2030s
Read article: Sounding out swarms
Swarms of midges exhibit many of the unusual characteristics of collective behaviour. Jennifer Ouellette meets one physicist who studies them with sound
Read article: Physics in the dark
Jon Cartwright examines some of the technologies that are helping blind physicists to progress in and contribute to the subject
Read article: What next for Fukushima?
With local residents still unable to return to their homes near the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear-power plant, Bruce Drinkwater and Rob Malkin describe their travels to Japan to see...
Read article: A new cosmic messenger
Imre Bartos gives the low-down on the Physics World Breakthrough of the Year for 2017, in which two neutron stars were seen to collide from the gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation...
