The ability to predict earthquakes could save thousands of lives every year. But for most scientists, knowing in advance when and where such events will happen is little more than a pipe dream.
Read article: Breaking new ground
A new industry-wide graduate scheme aims to get the next generation of nuclear scientists thinking about community and environmental issues from the outset.
Read article: A fresh look at nuclear
As physics enters the age of the petabyte, pioneering methods of visualization are fast changing the way we understand and disseminate science. Physics World presents a gallery of ...
Read article: A feast of visualization
A career in space technology offers great scope for creativity and the chance to build something new. It can even make you relatively popular at parties, as Kevin Middleton describe...
Read article: Space to explore
Barry Sanders explains how state-of-the-art animations are taking over the role of classic quantum-mechanical Gedanken experiments to help visualize the complexi...
Read article: Seeing the quantum world
Jacqueline Hewett speaks to Peter Smith, the principal investigator on NASA's Phoenix mission to Mars
Read article: Phoenix unlocks the icy history of Mars
Joost van Mameren explains how quantitative force measurements by optical tweezers can unravel the mechanical properties of biological molecules
Read article: Optical tweezers: where physics meets biology
Nadya Anscombe discovers how Nobel prize winning research has been turned into a practical product
Read article: Menlo takes frequency combs to the masses
Plans for dealing with the torrent of data from the Large Hadron Collider’s detectors have made the CERN particle-physics lab, yet again, a pioneer in computing as well as physics. Andreas...
Read article: The large hadron computer
As they enter their final year of undergraduate study, six students from around the globe share with Physics World their perspectives on physics, their courses and the future
Read article: One year left to go
