Lorna Dougan explains how physicists are helping to unravel the properties of organisms in Earth's least hospitable places
Read article: Surviving at the extremes: the physics of ‘extremophiles’
Jon Cartwright reports on the rival groups creating the darkest substances yet
Read article: Fifty shades of black
A Master's degree in physics can open many doors, but is it the right step for your career? Alaina G Levine explores the options
Read article: The Master’s route
Estelle Mossou explains how she balances the demands of users while carrying out her own research
Read article: ‘Where everybody knows everybody else’: life as an instrument scientist
The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source has just installed a suite of new instruments at its second target station and is looking to bring in more users from industry
Read article: Targeting industry at the UK’s neutron source
Ling Xin reports on the construction of China’s first “super neutron microscope”
Read article: China joins the spallation club
Gisela Eckhardt was one of the early pioneers in laser physics. Valdas Pasiskevicius, Richard Mildren and David Burman tell the largely unknown story...
Read article: Gisela Eckhardt and the Raman laser
Stephen Ornes shines a light on the small band of "speleophysicists" who combine their love of physics with a passion for caves
Read article: Unchartered underground
James Dacey investigates a plan to use muons to peer inside Mexico’s famous volcano Popocatépetl to help predict the timing and extent of its fiery outbursts
Read article: Monitoring a smoking giant with muons: a plan for Popocatépetl
Scientists are preparing to glean insights in crater formation, materials science and mechanisms of mass extinction from the Chicxulub impact structure
Read article: Chicxulub: scientists revisit the crater of doom
