A flower’s nano-powers
Tobias Wenzel and Silvia Vignolini reveal an ingenious strategy flowers use to become coloured and attract pollinators
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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
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Rocket for rocketeers
What does it take to grow plants in space? Jon Cartwright gets his green fingers out
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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
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A sticky wonderland
Alaina G Levine visits adhesive-giant 3M Company’s innovation centre to find out about the physics involved
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The Cybathlon challenge
Rachel Brazil describes how science is helping disabled people to carry out everyday tasks thanks to new types of "assistive technology"
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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
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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
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Superconductivity – pairing up with nanotechnology
Nanostructures remain crucial both in attempts to better understand superconductivity, as well as efforts to apply it
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Tales from a British physicist in Japan
Elizabeth Tasker details the good, the bad and the confusing of working as a physicist in Japan
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