Mixing motherhood and science
We need to make it easier for women to be physicists and raise a family
Physics needs women
Female physicists meet at the first international conference aimed at lifting the number of women in physics
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Turning women into leaders
More female leaders are needed to encourage women to take up physics
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Dangers of dramatizing science
Robert Marc Friedman warns that historical characters must be portrayed carefully
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Black holes and beyond
Belief in the existence of black holes is the ultimate act of faith for a physicist
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Nature’s geometric uniqueness
The momentous complexity of modern physics is often seen as a stumbling block whenever one is asked to explain to the wider public – or to new students – how beautiful all of it is, and ho...
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Dark matter in poetic measure
The wonder of astronomy is expressed in a collection of poems by Rebecca Elson
Was Aristotle the first physicist?
Many think that the Greek philosopher impeded science - but Michael Rowan-Robinson disagrees
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Life after another RAE
Some 15 years and four RAEs later, departments are no longer judged against some statistical average but in terms of the quality of their research as measured against national and international standa...
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Marconi’s painful centenary
The Marconi story (see article) has featured a cast of interesting characters. Marconi himself was a larger-than-life scion of a wealthy Irish-Italian family, an energetic mix of entrepreneur, invento...
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