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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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Scientists in the newsroom
Media fellowships can help physicists improve the way they communicate their results to the outside world, as Helen Czerski describes
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Chamber simulates space on Earth
Stan Grisnik describes how NASA’s huge craft-testing facility can recreate the vacuum conditions of space.
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The Earth – for physicists
Scientists are beginning to understand the extent to which the evolution of our planet has been shaped by collisions, bombardments and catastrophes. John Baez tells the violent hist...
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Diamond coatings are branching out
Chris Walker looks at some of the uses of a novel amorphous diamond material
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