Read article: How lasers really work
How lasers really work
Random lasers give up their secrets
Read article: How lasers really work
Read article: “Pine tree” nanowires do the Eshelby twist
“Pine tree” nanowires do the Eshelby twist
Unusual structures could back up 55-year-old theory of material defects
Read article: Auroral light is polarized after all
Auroral light is polarized after all
New measurements of the Northern Lights overturn 50 years of conventional wisdom
Dawn of the memristor
There is a fourth standard circuit element in addition to resistors, capacitors and inductors
Read article: Report slams UK’s leading physics funding agency
Report slams UK’s leading physics funding agency
MPs call for major shake-up at the Science and Technology Facilities Council
Read article: Physicists quantify the ‘coefficient of inefficiency’
Physicists quantify the ‘coefficient of inefficiency’
The most effective committees have fewer than 20 members
Read article: Synchrotron proves Europeans were not the first painters to use oils
Synchrotron proves Europeans were not the first painters to use oils
Scientists find Afghan oil paintings that date back hundreds of years before the Renaissance
Read article: ‘Buckypaper’ stretches in a strange way
‘Buckypaper’ stretches in a strange way
Material’s response to stretching can be finely-tuned by mixing different carbon nanotubes
Read article: Astronomers get clear view of blazar
Astronomers get clear view of blazar
Black-hole powered jets are created by twisting magnetic fields that drive particles from galactic cores
Phonons fail to explain high-temperature superconductivity
Electron–phonon interactions can only account for a fraction of superconducting behaviour
