Read article: Cornering the Higgs boson
Cornering the Higgs boson
Michael Riordan continues his tale of the hunt for the Higgs boson
Read article: Cornering the Higgs boson
Read article: Shocking hearts gently
Shocking hearts gently
Eberhard Bodenschatz describes a less-invasive approach to heart defibrillation
Read article: The academic pyramid
The academic pyramid
Margaret Harris investigates the scarcity of permanent academic posts for PhD-trained physicists
Read article: My life on Mars
My life on Mars
Ashley Dale recounts his experiences during a two-week stint at the Mars Desert Research Station, a facility in the Utah desert
Read article: Credit where credit’s due?
Credit where credit’s due?
Magdolna Hargittai gets to the bottom of the debate on whether female physicist Chien-Shiung Wu should have received a share of the 1957 Nobel prize
Read article: Delving into extra dimensions
Delving into extra dimensions
Henrik Melbéus and Tommy Ohlsson look at the mind-bending theories of extra dimensions
Read article: Material advantage? How new technology and rule changes affect sporting performance
Material advantage? How new technology and rule changes affect sporting performance
In a great sporting performance, how much of that is down to the athlete and how much to the technology they are using? Steve Haake investigates
Read article: The quantum game of life
The quantum game of life
Can our universe be modelled as a giant computer? Pablo Arrighi and Jonathan Grattage describe recent advances in the "digital physics" project
Read article: In the wake of Fukushima
In the wake of Fukushima
Steven Judge and Hiroyuki Kuwahara report on efforts to monitor radioactive contamination in areas near Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power stat...
Read article: Defeating diffraction
Defeating diffraction
Once thought to offer imaging at unlimited resolution beyond that permitted by diffraction, superlenses never quite worked in practice. Physicists now have a host of other ideas to make perfect images...
