While the ESS will be the most powerful source of neutrons in the world, David Burman looks at a proposal to modify the facility’s linear accelerator to also produce neutrinos
Read article: From neutrons to neutrinos at the European Spallation Source
Despite talk of skills shortages, most graduates in scientific disciplines take jobs outside science. Patrick White and Emma Smith reflect on why this is and what it means for the long-term career pro...
Read article: Taking the long view
Matin Durrani visits the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US to learn about a unique microscope being built there
Read article: Towards a neutron microscope: seeing where other particles fail to reach
Jon Cartwright talks to the physicists who are hoping to find a flaw in the equivalence principle
Read article: The descent of mass
As Europe’s neutron supply could fall by as much as half within the next couple of decades, newly developed sources could stave off the decline
Read article: Plugging the deficit in Europe’s neutron supply
Do breakthroughs in physics occur through sudden “light-bulb moments”, or are they more often the result of solid, hard graft? Philip Ball talks to physicists who have experienced...
Read article: In search of claritons
With China launching a batch of probes this year in the first part of its space priority programme, Cindy Hao discovers that funding issues may hit future missions
Read article: Probes and priorities: China’s strategy for space
Gerry Gilmore and Floor van Leeuwen explain how the precise data from the Gaia mission will revolutionize our view of the galaxy
Read article: A billion pixels, a billion stars
Research from a cinema in Germany shows how the breath of a crowd can reflect how they’re feeling, as Stephen Ornes reports
Read article: Every breath we take
The vacuum-based technique of atomic-layer deposition – a variant of chemical-vapour deposition – holds much promise for energy and environmental applications
Read article: What atomic-layer deposition could do for energy and the environment
