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...
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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
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The surprising pleasures of life as a "building physicist"
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Markus Aspelmeyer and Anton Zeilinger on how technological advances let us readdress fundamental quantum puzzles
Read article: A quantum renaissance
Mike Hepburn, managing director of JEOL UK, tells Hamish Johnston how the firm and its customers have flourished by working together
Read article: Collaborations drive innovation at JEOL UK
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...
Read article: Force-microscopy firm finds success in 3D
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
Read article: Scanning electron microscopy rises to the challenges of the 21st century
The global appeal of working for the IAEA
Read article: Physicists without borders
Why new fluorescence-microscopy techniques are proving a challenge for physicists and biologists alike
Read article: Shedding light on life
Glaciers, satellite technology and climate change
