Just over a year ago, the online project Galaxy Zoo was launched. Two of its founders, Chris Lintott and Kate Land, reflect on the story of one of the most innova...
For the last 10 years physicists in Italy have been claiming to have directly detected dark matter, which is believed to make up 23% of the universe. Edwin Cartlidge finds out why their results conti...
A background in physics plus a keen interest in politics and current affairs can add up to a rewarding career in international security, as James Acton explains
Asylum Research was built on its founder’s zeal for biophysics - but now its atomic force microscopes are pointing the way towards denser computer memories, and one even has appeared in one of the w...
Long seen as a reliable workhorse, the scanning electron microscope also has a more exciting side. Debbie Stokes explains why a 'quiet revolution' is occurring in some SEM labs