James McKenzie looks at some of the photonics and instrumentation firm that have won 2023 business awards from the Institute of Physics
Read article: Optics and instrumentation firms share in the 2023 Institute of Physics business awards
Rachel Youngman explains the rationale behind the Institute of Physics’ “Bin the boffin” campaign
Read article: Why the Institute of Physics launched a campaign to get the media to ‘Bin the boffin’
Kyla Rushman reviews the film The Creator produced, directed and co-written by Gareth Edwards
Read article: The Creator: a big movie with big effects that explores AI ethics in surprising ways
Robert P Crease says we still have much to learn from the 1954 hearing in which Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance
Read article: What the movie Oppenheimer can teach today’s politicians about scientific advice
Tom Tierney reviews Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
Read article: Size matters: the economies of scale, from the very big to the very small
Kate Gardner reviews Einstein in Time and Space: a Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
Read article: Albert Einstein: the living, breathing human being
Medical-physics firms make up a large chunk of the winners of business innovation awards from the Institute of Physics
Read article: Meet five medical companies that have received 2023 business awards from the Institute of Physics
Michael Riordan argues that if the US had a more conservative strategy when building the SSC, the history of particle physics could have been different
Read article: Could a different approach have saved the Superconducting Super Collider?
Isabel Rabey reviews The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
Read article: Beyond a ‘man’s world’: patriarchs, matriarchs and the quest for gender equality
Robert P Crease says that if we want to ditch fossil fuels, we must reassess the validity of the “linear no-threshold” model of radiation
Read article: How sound is the model used to establish safe radiation levels?
