interviews

Tools that were originally designed to enhance optical microscopy proved key to developing Opsydia's laser-etching system.

Making their mark

How fundamental research on adaptive optics led Martin Booth, Patrick Salter and Andrew Rimmer to start a company that uses lasers to create microscopic marks inside diamonds

How COVID-19 is impacting global weather and climate observation

On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, Petteri Taalas and Lars Peter Riishojgaard, of the World Meteorological Organization, talk to James Dacey about the WMO’s response to the global pand...

How plasmas can improve food and agriculture

Dave Graves talks about applications from food safety to better fertilizers

Tackling the grand challenges

Nobel laureate Steven Chu from Stanford University talks about his successes as energy secretary and tells Richard Blaustein how the US can collaborate in a competitive environment

Solving challenges in medical device design

Phil Marsden discusses his career in physics, setting up the company Unitive Design & Analysis and his latest role as chair of the IOP’s Medical Physics Group

A broader range of experiments

Anatole von Lilienfeld explains how machine learning is creating new opportunities for research across all areas of the physical sciences

Recognizing academic excellence in the Southeastern Conference

Astrophysicist Gabriela González of Louisiana State University explains why the recognition that comes with the SEC Professor of the Year award is so important to her