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: A new cosmic messenger
Google’s hardware lab’s Rami Barends describes his unorthodox route through academia and what it’s like attempting to build a quantum computer
Read article: Random walk to quantum computing
As bacteria evolve to fend off traditional antibiotics, nanomaterials may play a key role in tackling infectious disease
Read article: Nanotechnology takes on microbial drug resistance
Johan Wåhlin and Alex Klein-Paste explain why millions of tonnes of salt are spread on icy roads every year in the pursuit of safe driving conditions
Read article: A salty safety solution
Jennifer Ouellette explores the controversially counterintuitive phenomenon of hot water freezing faster than cold – and why some scientists think a reverse effect may even occur too
Read article: When cold warms faster than hot
Dalmeet Singh Chawla delves into the pros and cons of self-citations, as well as the possible benefits of the s-index
Read article: How much self-promotion is enough?
Physics World talks to early-career scientists in the US about the issues they face
Read article: Rising stars show their stripes
Antoine Kouchner and Véronique Van Elewyck explain why the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea is the ideal place to look for neutrinos from space
Read article: Looking at the sky from under water
Jon Willis explores the landscape of giant smoking chimneys in the depths of the Pacific to find clues about life on ocean worlds
Read article: 20,000 pings under the sea
Helen Czerski faces stormy seas in the pursuit of bubbles, trying to decipher how these tiny pockets of gas in the ocean influence the planet
Read article: Behold the bubbly ocean
