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: My invisible battle
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
Read article: The long road to Mars
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
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
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?
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
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...
Read article: Random walk to quantum computing
Random walk to quantum computing
Google’s hardware lab’s Rami Barends describes his unorthodox route through academia and what it’s like attempting to build a quantum computer
