Read article: Don’t panic
Don’t panic
The job market for new graduates and career-changers in 2009 is not great, but physicists may be better equipped than most, as Margaret Harris explains
Read article: Don’t panic
Read article: The unique universe
The unique universe
Many cosmological theories not only see our universe as one of many but also claim that time does not exist. Lee Smolin argues against the timeless multiverse
Read article: Electromagnetic software accelerates ahead
Electromagnetic software accelerates ahead
Hamish Johnston explains how software born in an accelerator lab is now being used for everything from medical physics to invisibility cloaks
Adaptive-control algorithms take condensed-matter physics into the 21st century
Adam Kollin and John Keem of RHK Technology explain how their firm is helping physicists get the most from scanning probe microscopy
Read article: Mathematical typesetting gets XML makeover
Mathematical typesetting gets XML makeover
Siân Harris talks to Barry MacKichan the founder of MacKichan Software about why the company is bringing XML-based processing to its traditional LaTeX-based soft...
Read article: Optical modelling points the way to PDT progress
Optical modelling points the way to PDT progress
Off-the-shelf commercial software is helping medical physicists to enhance the clinical efficacy of photodynamic therapy for targeted tumour destruction. Joe McEntee reports.
Read article: Riding the red dragon
Riding the red dragon
Western universities have long welcomed visiting students and academics from the Far East. Now China’s ascendance offers career opportunities for researchers like Ian Broadwell wh...
Read article: Doing science in the open
Doing science in the open
Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration
Read article: In search of the black swans
In search of the black swans
The publish-or-perish ethic too often favours a narrow and conservative approach to scientific innovation. Mark Buchanan asks whether we are pushing revolutionary ideas to the margi...
Read article: Riding the storm out
Riding the storm out
A career in severe-weather research offers flexibility and plenty of opportunities to experience the fascinating physics of the rotating fluid called the atmosphere. Josh Wurman
