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Tim Berners-Lee: why the inventor of the Web is ‘optimistic, idealistic and perhaps a little naïve’

Ask me anything: Kirsty McGhee – ‘Follow what you love: you might end up doing something you never thought was an option’

Kirsty McGhee explains how she became a science writer in industry

Master’s programme takes microelectronics in new directions

Combining a solid foundation in current production technologies with the chance to explore emerging materials and structures, the course prepares students for diverse careers in mi...

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‘Science needs all perspectives – male, female and everything in-between’: Brazilian astronomer Thaisa Storchi Bergmann

The power of physics: what can a physicist do in the nuclear energy industry?

Six physicists in the nuclear energy industry talk about their career paths, and how a background in physics can be used across the sector

Ask me anything: Scott Bolton – ‘It’s exciting to be part of a team that’s seeing how nature works for the first time’

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission

From ‘rewarding and exciting’ to ‘challenging and overwhelming’: what it means to have a career in intelligence and cyber security

Curiosity, problem-solving and resilience are the key qualities for a career in intelligence

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From a laser lab to The Economist: physicist Jason Palmer on his move to journalism

Building a career from a passion for science communication

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Education and outreach

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How to solve the ‘future of physics’ problem

Neil Downie believes that students need more support to devise, build and test their own projects

A bell jar covers a funnel containing dark viscous material, a thermometer and a petri dish

How the slowest experiment in the world became a fast success

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity

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Quarter of UK physics departments face closure, finds IOP report

Survey of the heads of UK physics department finds most are expecting to drop courses

Errors in A-level physics papers could jeopardize student university admissions, Institute of Physics warns

Concerns over physics students starting university expressed in letter from the IOP

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‘I left the school buzzing and on a high’

Colin White explains why doing schools outreach put him way outside his comfort zone

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Illuminating light: a colourful physics book for children

Sarah Tesh reviews Light: the Extraordinary Energy That Illuminates Our World by Jess Wade, illustrated by Ana Sanfelippo

Diversity and inclusion

Illuminating quantum worlds: a Diwali conversation with Rupamanjari Ghosh

Entangled histories: women in quantum physics

Diversity in UK astronomy and geophysics declining, finds survey

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Influential theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Chen-Ning Yang dies aged 103

Yang is famed for his work on parity violation

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Theoretical physicist Michael Berry wins 2025 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize

Berry recognized for his contributions in mathematics and theoretical physics over a 60-year career

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John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis win the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics

Trio honoured for their work on quantum tunnelling in superconducting circuits

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The top five physics Nobel prizes of the 21st century revealed

Matin Durrani counts down the five most signifiicant physics Nobels since 2000

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Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him

Gustaf Dalén is nowhere near as famous as his contemporaries, but does that make him undeserving of the prize? Margaret Harris investigates

Training for the stars: Rosemary Coogan on becoming an astronaut

Inside the training, science and imagination that inspire ESA’s new generation of astronauts

Rainer Weiss: US gravitational-wave pioneer dies aged 92

Weiss was instrumental in the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015

William Phillips: why quantum physics is so ‘deliciously weird’

The Nobel-prize-winning physicist William Phillips talks to Margaret Harris about his life and career

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Cosmic chemistry: Ewine van Dishoeck shares her zeal for astrochemistry

Our podcast guest is a Kavli Prize in Astrophysics laureate

Big data, big wins: how solar astrophysics can be a ‘game-changer’ in sports analytics

Joe McEntee explores the surprising links between solar physics and sports science

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Richard Muller: ‘Physics stays the same. What changes is how the president listens’

Robert P Crease talks to Richard Muller, author of Physics for Future Presidents

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