How people work
Roland Ennos offers a new look at familiar human behaviour like walking, chewing and fingernail-breaking
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Pakistani astronomers shine a light on the skies
Saadat A Siddiqi and Muhammad Sabieh Anwar describe how a series of astronomy events in Pakistan over the past year could help to boost the public's interest...
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Measuring (almost) zero
Chad Orzel explains why a non-zero value for the electron's electric dipole moment could be the harbinger of "new physics"
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Elspeth Drayson: life in the fast lane
Elspeth Drayson, co-owner of motor-racing team Drayson Racing, talks about her route from physics to the pit-lane
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Recipes for planet formation
Michael R Meyer describes how studies of extrasolar planets are helping us to understand how planetary systems form and evolve
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Wrong but useful
Gavin Schmidt explains how climate models are becoming an essential tool for politicians and policymakers
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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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