Crystal Bailey urges today’s physics graduates to sharpen their skills – and their CVs – for careers in industry; while also calling on academic staff to provide students with mor...
Read article: Your pathway to industry
Japan's steel industry has benefited from strong links with academia and with neutron-science facilities, according to Kaoru Sato, Haruo Nakamichi and Hitoshi Sueyoshi
Read article: Bringing neutrons into the steel industry
Sarah Tesh and Jess Wade describe Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s highs and lows, as revealed in her recent IOP President’s Medal lecture
Read article: ‘Look happy dear, you’ve just made a discovery’
Linda Nordling speaks to Bernard Asabere, director of Ghana’s first astronomical telescope
Read article: The accidental astronomer: Bernard Asabere, Ghana’s first domestic space scientist
With the Cassini craft due to plunge into Saturn on 15 September, Joshua Colwell explains the scientific secrets it has revealed over the last 20 years
Read article: Cassini’s grand finale
Vacuum-based transport systems could clear the way for faster, cheaper travel – or so proponents claim. Jon Cartwright takes a closer look
Read article: From hype to hyperloop
Particle physicist Daniel Whiteson describes his collaboration with the artistic brains behind PHD Comics
Read article: When goofing off is good
Benjamin Skuse investigates the sibling-scientists relationship to see if having a brother or sister who is also a researcher can help or hinder your career
Read article: A shared journey of discovery
Designing equipment that can survive in the harshest reaches of the solar system is a challenge. Keith Cooper explores how instrument developers do it
Read article: Instrumentation at the extremes
Most sources of helium are discovered by accident, but geoscientists are developing new ways to find this incredibly useful element
Read article: On the hunt for helium
