Read article: 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
Media fellowships can help physicists improve the way they communicate their results to the outside world, as Helen Czerski describes
Read article: Chamber simulates space on Earth
Stan Grisnik describes how NASA’s huge craft-testing facility can recreate the vacuum conditions of space.
Read article: 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...
Read article: Diamond coatings are branching out
Chris Walker looks at some of the uses of a novel amorphous diamond material
Read article: Darwin’s legacy
Born 200 years ago, Charles Darwin is rightly celebrated for his work explaining the origin of species. But in setting a new standard for what an explanation of nature should be like, he also had a hu...
Read article: Tools for learning
Some instruments in teaching laboratories may look old-fashioned, but those wooden boxes can hold surprisingly advanced equipment. George Herold describes his career designing exper...
Read article: The quantum life
The idea that quantum mechanics can explain many fundamental aspects of life is resurging, as Paul Davies reveals
Read article: 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: 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
