Read article: Learning lessons from the classroom
Learning lessons from the classroom
Valerie Jamieson asks female pupils what they really think
Read article: Learning lessons from the classroom
Read article: Liberté, égalité and fraternité
Liberté, égalité and fraternité
The battle cry is as relevant in physics now as it was in France over 200 years ago
Read article: Car lubricants: fact and friction
Car lubricants: fact and friction
Better oils and lubricants could improve efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases
From the big bang to the eureka moment
Peter Rodgers reports from Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday celebrations
Read article: Ferromagnetic superconductors
Ferromagnetic superconductors
Physicists overturn the belief that magnetism and superconductivity cannot co-exist
Read article: New frontiers in superconductivity
New frontiers in superconductivity
Metallic, magnetic and organic materials are making novel superconductors
Read article: Guglielmo Marconi: radio star
Guglielmo Marconi: radio star
A lack of formal education, high-powered family connections and an unstoppable will to succeed helped Guglielmo Marconi to transmit the first radio signal across the Atlantic and launch the wireless-c...
Read article: Werner Heisenberg: controversial scientist
Werner Heisenberg: controversial scientist
Some 100 years after the father of the uncertainty principle was born, historians of science continue to debate the role that Werner Heisenberg played during the Second World War
Read article: Condensates reap Nobel reward
Condensates reap Nobel reward
In 1924 the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose sent a paper to Einstein in which he derived the Planck law for black-body radiation by treating the photons as a gas of identical particles. Einstein ...
Read article: Nobel population 1901-50: anatomy of a scientific elite
Nobel population 1901-50: anatomy of a scientific elite
On 10 December this year the Nobel Foundation will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the award of the first Nobel prizes. As the winners of this year’s physics prize – Eric Cornell, Wolfg...
