A new European directive designed to prevent workers from being exposed to high magnetic fields could potentially have a severe impact on research into magnetic resonance imaging, warns Denis...
Read article: Threats to ultra-high-field MRI
Robert Roser examines the history of Fermilab
Read article: From prairie to energy frontier
Robert P Crease uncovers the secret of the conflict between science and religion in responses to a Physics World survey
Read article: Religion explained
Darwin was no physicist, but his approach to science will be familiar to us
Read article: In praise of Darwin
Robert P Crease talks to a former string theorist who found what he wanted in science when he applied the tools of physics to fundamental questions in biology
Read article: The call of the wild
Alexei Kornyshev thinks that physicists and biologists are now working more closely together than ever before, but that barriers to closer collaboration still exist
Read article: How physics can inspire biology
How protein folding can be fun
Read article: Web life: Foldit
Andrew Steane reviews Stuart Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred
Read article: Between chance and necessity
So what is the site about? Phun is a free, downloadable physics-simulation programme that bills itself as a “2D physics sandbox”. The programme’s limitless virtual space allows users...
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Robotics competitions supply a vital missing link in science and engineering education, says Robert P Crease
Read article: The power of robotics
