Wei Yang – president of the National Natural Science Foundation of China – explains how the agency supports basic research and what it’s doing to boost the quality of physics in...
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Robert P Crease meets Marcia McNutt, the incoming president of the US National Academy of Sciences
Read article: Guarding integrity
The co-inventor of the AFM describes how it came about 30 years ago and why it continues to shape research at the nanoscale
Read article: Christoph Gerber: atomic-force microscope pioneer
MIT's Mike Williams explains how four or more quarks could join together to form exotic particles or even subatomic molecules
Read article: Tetraquarks, pentaquarks and other giants of particle physics
An exclusive interview with Enrique Cabrero Mendoza, director of Mexico's National Council for Science and Technology, about the country’s political priorities
Read article: Enrique Cabrero Mendoza: Mexico’s vision for science and technology
Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura on winning the prize and what comes next
Read article: Filling the world with light
Physicist-turned-film-director Mark Levinson describes how making a documentary about the discovery of the Higgs boson took him back to his scientific roots
Read article: Once a physicist: Mark Levinson
K Radhakrishnan, chair of the Indian Space Research Organisation, talks about what is next for India in space science
Read article: At the cosmic helm: how India will follow the Mars Orbiter Mission
Heiner Linke, director of the Nanometer Structure Consortium in Sweden, tells Matthew Chalmers about a new project to develop nanomaterials for energy
Read article: Swedish nano centre eyes up clean energy
Marco Antonio Raupp, Brazil’s minister of science, technology and innovation, on the challenges and opportunities for Brazilian research
Read article: Marco Antonio Raupp: priorities and challenges for Brazilian science
