Impact

Business and innovation

Talent spotting: secrets for a successful job interview in industry

James McKenzie reveals how to make yourself stand out when applying for a job

Talking tech transfer at TRIUMF

Kathryn Hayashi, who leads the commercial arm of Canada’s national particle accelerator laboratory, discusses the challenges of developing spin-out companies based on rese...

A calculated risk

For neutron scientist Peter Böni, founding a company felt like a huge gamble – until a chance meeting persuaded him to take the plunge

How to build a super-magnet

Ziad Melhem outlines the thinking that went into the design and development of the world’s most powerful all-superconducting magnet

Creating chemical images, solving industrial problems

How time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry is helping scientists understand commercial challenges in materials science

Tesla versus Edison: lessons from the AC/DC war

James McKenzie revisits the battle between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla over the best way to transmit electricity

Education and outreach

Communicating science at music festivals

Talks, plays, poetry and many more innovative approaches

How to answer cosmic queries

Astrophysicist and author Jillian Scudder talks about the pros and cons of writing a blog that answers the public's questions about the universe, however random they may be

Thinking points for career bliss

Graduates and more experienced job-seekers alike need to be aware, willing and able to ensure they find the most fulfilling career path, says Jack Bailey

Physics communication, a MedPhys Slam and the future of high-energy physics

How to teach physics to undergraduates and explain medical physics to patients

MedPhys Slam: fostering the art of communication

The AAPM Annual Meeting's MedPhys Slam aimed to advance the communication skills of junior medical physicists

Open-science hardware in the developing world

Rachel Brazil looks at the evolution of open-science hardware and why it is a vital lifeline for research in the developing world

Policy and funding

Photo of a colourful pavilion ceiling in Beijing

China targets overseas talent, Peer Review Week 2018 and ‘Rydberg radio’

Physics World journalists discuss key stories from our new special report on China

European Union research boss Carlos Moedas says Horizon Europe will aim to strengthen the EU’s “global scientific leadership”

UK’s access to European funding under threat from ‘third-country’ status

The European Commission has called for €100bn to be spent on its next seven-year funding programme dubbed Horizon Europe

The peril of proposals

Dalmeet Singh Chawla investigates the complex and crucial grant-funding process, to see if it is time to revamp how academics apply for funding

US politicians call for a national quantum-computing strategy

Two new bills will be considered by Congress

Developing clinical partnerships

Translating scientific advances into benefits for patients requires input from clinicians, basic scientists and industry experts, writes Steve Smye