When atomic physicist Josh Silver thought of a new technology that could help billions of people in the developing world, he invented spectacles that can be self-adjusted to the userâ...
Read article: A global vision for vision
Physics can help crowds to exit safely from stadia, says Andreas Schadschneider
Read article: I’m a football fan…get me out of here
S James Gates explains how research on a class of geometric symbols known as adinkras could lead to fresh insights into the theory of supersymmetry
Read article: Symbols of power: how adinkras could lead to fresh insights into supersymmetry
Despite the spontaneity we think that we exhibit, our behaviour is far more predictable than we may admit, as Albert-László Barabási explains
Read article: You’re so predictable
Lucy Calder and Ofer Lahav shed light on the background to the discovery of dark energy
Read article: Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted
Pauline Rigby describes how a then little-known scientist became the first person to design and build a working laser
Read article: And then there was light
Fifty years after their invention, Sidney Perkowitz examines the huge impact of lasers on science, culture and everyday life
Read article: From ray-gun to Blu-ray
Six laser experts recall how the laser has advanced their fields of interest – and speculate where it will take these areas next
Read article: Where next for the laser?
The world's largest laser could transform the search for abundant, carbon-free electricity, as Mike Dunne explains
Read article: Fusion’s bright new dawn
Jim Al-Khalili examines the prospects for an Islamic scientific renaissance
Read article: Science in the Muslim world
