Read article: Specialist manufacturing: gearing up for growth in the research marketplace
Frazer-Nash Manufacturing is a trusted partner for industry and scientific customers seeking precision engineering services and low-volume production of specialist parts
Read article: White papers: Bruker Nano, Dectris and Park Systems
Explore the latest technology white papers from physics-based industry in materials science, detector technology and microscopy
Read article: Innovation must continue in a COVID-19 world
Richard Bray says the protection of new ideas remains crucial now, just as it did before the COVID-19 pandemic
Read article: Multidisciplinary collaboration: the engine-room of opportunity
TTP’s multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers work with a diverse client base to invent, design and develop new products and technologies with lasting commercial impac...
Read article: From Post-it Notes to microwaves – why serendipity lies at the heart of innovation
Accidental discoveries lie at the heart of many technological innovations. James McKenzie runs through his favourites
Read article: Making their mark
How fundamental research on adaptive optics led Martin Booth, Patrick Salter and Andrew Rimmer to start a company that uses lasers to create microscopic marks inside ...
Read article: The danger of scientific meetings going online only
Harry Collins, Bill Barnes and Riccardo Sapienza warn against a wholesale shift to virtual workshops and conferences after COVID-19
Read article: Mailing undergraduate lab experiments to students stuck at home, how to run a physics conference on Zoom
Physicists explain how they adapted and thrived under COVID-19 restrictions
Read article: Ethos, logos, pathos: the three steps to communicating science
Sam Illingworth gives practical advice on the art of rhetoric and other communication skills
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: mailing lab kits to students enhances learning at home
The “At-Home Lab Kit” allows undergraduate students to do physics experiments while sheltering in place
Read article: Space science and engineering: the journey starts here
University College London’s MSc in space science and engineering offers graduate physicists a unique opportunity
Read article: Ask me anything: Priyamvada Natarajan
The theoretical astrophysicist, professor and director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities at Yale University gives her advice to physics graduates
Read article: Bipartisan bill aims to revamp National Science Foundation
Lawmakers are seeking to change the remit of the National Science Foundation so that it focuses more on the commercialization of research
Read article: Ministry of Recovery and Discovery
Peter Wright on technologies that have created more problems than solutions
Read article: Learning from Black Swan events
Christopher Lavers says that when it comes to dealing with COVID-19, lessons should have been learned from previous crises
Read article: A call for unity within particle physics
Regardless of which high-energy collider design gets the CERN council's approval, Tessa Charles argues that proponents of competing proposals need to work well together
Read article: Ask me anything: Crystal Bailey
The head of career programmes at the American Physical Society gives her advice to physics graduates
Read article: Tackling the grand challenges
Nobel laureate Steven Chu from Stanford University talks about his successes as energy secretary and tells Richard Blaustein how the US can collaborate in a competitive envi...
Read article: CERN approves further work on Future Circular Collider – but delays final decision
European strategy update proposes further work on a huge 100 km circular collider at CERN, but a final decision to build it will not be made until 2026
Read article: Critical research hit as COVID-19 forces physics labs to close
Major labs have shut their doors in response to the worldwide lockdown, but a few remain open and in some cases are carrying out critical work related to the COVID-19 pandemic
Read article: The 10 most important future big-science facilities in physics
A meeting in Oxford discussed the past, present and future of large-scale facilities in physics
Read article: Brookhaven chosen to host major US nuclear physics facility
Due to start by 2030, the Electron-Ion Collider will probe the strong nuclear force and the role of gluons in nucleons and nuclei
Read article: Europe draws up plans for plasma-based particle accelerators
Compact devices would be far cheaper than existing technology
Read article: Square Kilometre Array hit by €250m shortfall
Officials planning the giant radio telescope hope to plug the funding gap by attracting new countries to the project
