Matin Durrani finds the cosmologist's last book to be an "optimistic, upbeat and visionary" manifesto for science
Read article: Stephen Hawking’s final book: a review of Brief Answers to the Big Questions
To compile the ultimate science reading list, Tushna Commissariat talks to some of today’s top physicists, writers and broadcasters
Read article: The physicists’ library
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
Read article: A solid (state) success
With the European Commission considering a net zero emissions goal, Dave Elliott examines how feasible this is by 2050
Read article: Can we get to net zero emissions?
The game is changing as prices "race to the bottom" and in some places renewables are the cheapest option, finds Dave Elliott
Read article: Winners, losers and the low-cost energy future
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...
Read article: Specialists gather at World Renewable Energy Congress
Tushna Commissariat reviews Audrey the Inventor, written by Rachel Valentine and illustrated by Katie Weymouth
Read article: Ingenious inventions
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
Read article: No need for BECCS?
Tushna Commissariat reviews Through Two Doors at Once: the Elegant Experiment that Captures the Enigma of Quantum Reality by Anil Ananthaswamy
Read article: Two paths, diverged
David Appell reviews Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
Read article: The trouble with beauty
