Read article: Nanotubes win Euro prize
Nanotubes win Euro prize
Recognition for ten years of progress towards nano-electronics
Read article: Nanotubes win Euro prize
Read article: Chaotic lasers decode data
Chaotic lasers decode data
A new encryption method based on synchronized lasers promises to be ultra-safe
Read article: Nobel Prize for Bose condensates
Nobel Prize for Bose condensates
Cornell, Ketterle and Wieman are rewarded for creating the fifth state of matter
Read article: First nanotube circuits get logical
First nanotube circuits get logical
Digital logic gates made from carbon nanotubes bring nano-electronics a step closer
Condensate control could lead to ‘atom circuits’
Chips that move clouds of atoms with magnetic fields could be used in quantum computers
Biological physics hits the high life
About half a century ago, physicists like Max Delbrück and Erwin Schrödinger discovered the fascination of tackling problems in biology with physics. Indeed, the increasing overlap of physics, biolo...
Atomic clocks speed up
The most successful applications of atomic clocks include the global positioning system (GPS) of satellites for navigation, and also the international basis of timekeeping, known as the coordinated un...
Read article: Life, the cosmos and everything
Life, the cosmos and everything
The notion that certain features of the universe, such as the values of the physical constants, may be constrained by the requirement that intelligent observers can arise was first mooted nearly 40 ye...
When constants are not constant
In the movie The Meaning of Life, the Monty Python team reminds us that we live in “an amazing and expanding universe”. Ever since the startling evidence for cosmic expansion was discovere...
UK tackles student shortage
The Undergraduate Physics Enquiry checks the health of university physics
