Business and innovation Opinion and reviews When is good enough ‘good enough’? Honor Powrie extols the virtues being just “good enough” in life Read article: When is good enough ‘good enough’?
Ethics Opinion and reviews Academic assassinations are a threat to global science Alireza Qaiumzadeh says that science can only exist if scientists are protected as civilians Read article: Academic assassinations are a threat to global science
Everyday science Opinion and reviews Breakfast physics, delving into quantum 2.0, the science of sound, an update to everything: micro reviews of recent books Condensed natter: Physics World editors give their compressed verdicts on top new books Read article: Breakfast physics, delving into quantum 2.0, the science of sound, an update to everything: micro reviews of recent books
Policy and funding Opinion and reviews Is Donald Trump conducting a ‘blitzkrieg’ on science? The US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has been dissolved for reasons of politics, not efficiency, says Robert P Crease Read article: Is Donald Trump conducting a ‘blitzkrieg’ on science?
History Opinion and reviews Inge Lehmann: the ground-breaking seismologist who faced a rocky road to success Kate Gardner reviews If I Am Right, and I Know I Am: Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret by Hanne Strager Read article: Inge Lehmann: the ground-breaking seismologist who faced a rocky road to success
Quantum computing Opinion and reviews Quantum computing: hype or hope? Honor Powrie explores the current status and future potential of quantum computers Read article: Quantum computing: hype or hope?
People Opinion and reviews Tim Berners-Lee: why the inventor of the Web is ‘optimistic, idealistic and perhaps a little naïve’ Tara Shears reviews This is for Everyone: the Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee Read article: Tim Berners-Lee: why the inventor of the Web is ‘optimistic, idealistic and perhaps a little naïve’
Education and outreach Opinion and reviews How to solve the ‘future of physics’ problem Neil Downie believes that students need more support to devise, build and test their own projects Read article: How to solve the ‘future of physics’ problem
Particle and nuclear Opinion and reviews Jesper Grimstrup’s The Ant Mill: could his anti-string-theory rant do string theorists a favour? Robert P Crease examines a new example of “rant lit” from Danish theorist Jesper Grimstrup Read article: Jesper Grimstrup’s The Ant Mill: could his anti-string-theory rant do string theorists a favour?
History Opinion and reviews Destroyers of the world: the physicists who built nuclear weapons Andrew Robinson reviews Destroyer of Worlds: the Deep History of the Nuclear Age 1895–1965 by Frank Close Read article: Destroyers of the world: the physicists who built nuclear weapons