Read article: A smart approach to smart packaging
A smart approach to smart packaging
Flexible, low-cost integrated circuits could transform the market for "Internet of things" devices and packaging on consumer goods
Read article: A smart approach to smart packaging
Read article: Rocket for rocketeers
Rocket for rocketeers
What does it take to grow plants in space? Jon Cartwright gets his green fingers out
Read article: Getting to business with coatings
Getting to business with coatings
nanotechweb.org looks into the range of coating technologies hitting the market and the issues affecting businesses large and small
Read article: A sticky wonderland
A sticky wonderland
Alaina G Levine visits adhesive-giant 3M Company’s innovation centre to find out about the physics involved
Read article: The Cybathlon challenge
The Cybathlon challenge
Rachel Brazil describes how science is helping disabled people to carry out everyday tasks thanks to new types of "assistive technology"
Read article: From physics to environmental science: a natural evolution?
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
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
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
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
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
