What is the most beautiful experiment in physics, according to our poll of Physics World readers? Robert P Crease reports
Read article: The most beautiful experiments in physics as chosen by real physicists
Who performed the most beautiful experiment in physics?
Read article: The double-slit experiment
Science is a uniquely public form of knowledge. What distinguishes it from other forms of knowledge is that scientific hypotheses can be checked by anyone with the will and resources to do so. In prin...
Read article: Opening the book of revelations
Building quantum computers from solid-state devices will not be easy
Read article: Quantum computing with solids
If anyone deserves more than one biography then surely that honour should go to Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), the physicist who produced the most powerful explosion in the history of the world and 14 y...
Read article: Sakharov, science and freedom
Recent scandals in physics research have not improved its image
Read article: Reputations at risk
Can water, wind and fire save the Earth?
Read article: Future energy challenges
The origin and historical development of the word "energy"
Read article: What does energy really mean?
In October 1998 Janna Levin arrived to start a postdoc at Sussex University’s Astronomy Centre. She had just said good-bye to her beloved California, swapping the sun of Berkeley for the grey sk...
Read article: Love on the edge of the universe
Why physicists love quotations
Read article: Who said that?
