Read article: Holiday hotspots for physicists
The global pandemic has put us all in need of a good break. Juanita Bawagan explores some exciting physics-themed holiday destinations on our planet and beyond
Read article: Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat
Fast neutrons from cosmic-ray showers can cause significant errors in supercomputers. Physicists hope to measure the problem and protect devices, says Rachel Brazil
Read article: Replicating how plants move
Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope explains how researchers are still unearthing new scientific insights into plant motion, which could lead to novel, bio-inspired robotic structures
Read article: How to spark an interest: advice for giving engaging physics presentations to pre-university students
Rick Marshall shares his advice for giving an inspiring presentation about physics to school students
Read article: Solving the proton puzzle
Why were physicists wrong about the size of the proton for so long? As Edwin Cartlidge explains, it is about bureaucracy and politics as much as physics
Read article: What does physics look like, and does it matter?
Anna Starkey explores how different approaches to visualizing physics can open up the way that society thinks and feels about physics
Read article: It’s topology, naturally
As Jon Cartwright reports, topological behaviours in fluid dynamics could help us understand the natural world and other complex systems
Read article: The Turing Test 2.0
Juanita Bawagan discovers how modern algorithms have transformed our understanding of the “Turing Test” and what it means for artificial intelligence
Read article: Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence
Julianna Photopoulos explores the issues of racial and gender bias in AI – and what physicists can do to recognize and tackle the problem
Read article: Celebrating a century of nuclear isomers
A century after “nuclear isomers” were discovered, Philip Walker and Zsolt Podolyák explore these long-lived, excited nuclear states
