IPCC’s climate report: the future’s not looking good
SR15 indicates that impacts of 1.5 °C warming would be severe but not as bad as those of 2 °C
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Do you philosophize?
Physicists grapple with philosophy far more often than you might think, explains Robert P Crease
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Stephen Hawking’s final book: a review of Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Matin Durrani finds the cosmologist's last book to be an "optimistic, upbeat and visionary" manifesto for science
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The physicists’ library
To compile the ultimate science reading list, Tushna Commissariat talks to some of today’s top physicists, writers and broadcasters
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A solid (state) success
James McKenzie reflects on the impact of the solid-state laser, a device in its infancy when it became the subject of one of the first articles in Physics World
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Can we get to net zero emissions?
With the European Commission considering a net zero emissions goal, Dave Elliott examines how feasible this is by 2050
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Winners, losers and the low-cost energy future
The game is changing as prices "race to the bottom" and in some places renewables are the cheapest option, finds Dave Elliott
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Specialists gather at World Renewable Energy Congress
Big hitters included David Renné, president of the International Solar Energy Society, and Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes, vice-president, European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF). David Elliott provi...
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Ingenious inventions
Tushna Commissariat reviews Audrey the Inventor, written by Rachel Valentine and illustrated by Katie Weymouth
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No need for BECCS?
Climate modelling seems to say we must continue with fossil fuels and carbon dioxide removal, but other approaches are wary of such technical fixes, says Dave Elliott
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