Read article: Elspeth Drayson: life in the fast lane
Elspeth Drayson: life in the fast lane
Elspeth Drayson, co-owner of motor-racing team Drayson Racing, talks about her route from physics to the pit-lane
Read article: Elspeth Drayson: life in the fast lane
Read article: Recipes for planet formation
Recipes for planet formation
Michael R Meyer describes how studies of extrasolar planets are helping us to understand how planetary systems form and evolve
Read article: Wrong but useful
Wrong but useful
Gavin Schmidt explains how climate models are becoming an essential tool for politicians and policymakers
Read article: The road to sustainability
The road to sustainability
"Sustainability" is the hottest topic in energy research today, but what does it actually mean? George Crabtree and John Sarrao describe what makes a ...
Read article: A physicist’s life-cycle
A physicist’s life-cycle
Long-term career satisfaction for academics is closely linked to the type of institution where they work, as Joseph C Hermanowicz discovered when he set out to follow physicists t...
Read article: Of gluons, atoms and strings
Of gluons, atoms and strings
An unusual alliance between physicists who study ultrahot plasmas and ultracold atoms is yielding intriguing results – and may even lead to an experimental test for string theory, as
Read article: Engineering the climate
Engineering the climate
Geoengineering has so far been something of a taboo topic for climate scientists. Peter Cox and Hazel Jeffery explain why it is now time to take it seriously
Read article: Voyager heads for interstellar space
Voyager heads for interstellar space
Richard Corfield celebrates the 20 year anniversary since NASA's Voyager mission left the solar system and began the second leg of its epic journey — an exploration o...
Read article: RGA User Group offers broad appeal
RGA User Group offers broad appeal
Robin Hathaway explains how a user group provides a forum for sharing experiences and discovering new ways to exploit the powerful diagnostic features of residual gas analysers acro...
Read article: Scientists in the newsroom
Scientists in the newsroom
Media fellowships can help physicists improve the way they communicate their results to the outside world, as Helen Czerski describes
