A recipe for female success
First ‘women in physics’ conference resolves to tap the under-used pool of female talent
Losses and games for quantum computers
Classical light and a classic riddle get the quantum treatment
Read article: Willibald Jentschke 1911 – 2002
Willibald Jentschke 1911 – 2002
Founder of the DESY electron synchrotron centre dies aged 90
Read article: Astronomers see the most distant galaxy yet
Astronomers see the most distant galaxy yet
Radiation from a galaxy 15.5 billion light years away lights up the early universe
‘DNA computer’ cracks code
Biology tackles the most complex task yet solved without electronic computers
Read article: Physicist scoops religion prize
Physicist scoops religion prize
John Polkinghorne wins £700 000 Templeton Prize
Read article: Light flashes charge the atmosphere
Light flashes charge the atmosphere
‘Blue jets’ make an electrical connection between clouds and the upper atmosphere
Read article: Physicists forecast ‘super-Niño’
Physicists forecast ‘super-Niño’
El Niño and La Niña could be fluctuations in a longer-term climate phenomenon
Thermal emission goes coherent
Nanoscale gratings enable thermal sources to emit coherent infrared light
Cold atoms carry light pulses
Physicists transport and modify trapped light pulses for the first time
