Read article: Royal Society launches fellowships to support Black scientists
Pilot programme aims to address under-representation through funding and mentoring support
Read article: Percentage of disabled physicists in the UK has halved in one year, finds survey
The percentage of people with a disability is also lower in physics than it is in the chemical and biological sciences
Read article: Female PhD students miss out on chance to become inventors, finds study
Women in technical PhD programmes are given less hands-on experience in patenting and commercial science compared to their male counterparts
Read article: Delight as UK strikes deal to join the EU’s flagship Horizon Europe funding programme
The UK will also join the EU’s Copernicus Earth-observation programme but not its Euratom fusion initiative
Read article: India launches its first mission to the Sun
The Aditya-L1 craft will improve our understanding of solar activity including the solar wind and solar flares
Read article: Campus community mourns nanoscientist fatally shot at the University of North Carolina
Zijie Yan was an “outstanding professor, researcher and mentor” colleague says
Read article: Scintillator study awarded Physics in Medicine & Biology best paper prize
Research on heterostructured scintillators for time-of-flight PET wins the Roberts Prize for the best paper published in Physics in Medicine & Biology last year
Read article: Scalable quantum processor simulates non-equilibrium phase transitions
Qubit reuse makes the most out of available hardware
Read article: Crackling noise technique listens to nanoquakes in materials
New microscopy technique could be used to identify weak spots in metals and investigate biostructures
Read article: Heartbeat detection in smartwatch signals wins Physiological Measurement best paper award
A study of algorithms used to detect heartbeats in photoplethysmography signals is awarded the Martin Black prize for the best paper published in Physiological Measurement last year
Read article: Antimatter does not fall up, CERN experiment reveals
ALPHA-g is first to observe antihydrogen in freefall
Read article: Are giant galaxy clusters defying standard cosmology?
Cluster known as El Gordo formed too soon to be explained by dark matter-based theories, astrophysicists claim
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Read article: Colder: how physicists beat the theoretical limit for laser cooling and laid the foundations for a quantum revolution
No experiment ever works better than theory says it should, but that’s exactly what happened in atomic physics in the late 1980s, as Chad Orzel describes
Read article: Zircons, plate tectonics and the mystery of life
James Dacey reports how new data from ancient crystals could transform our understanding of life on Earth
Read article: What’s the matter with condensed matter? Getting past the relative obscurity of solid-state physics in the public eye
James Kakalios on the condensed-matter physics popularity problem and how to fix it
Read article: Cold: how physicists learned to manipulate and move particles with laser cooling
The early history of laser cooling is a tale of three Nobel prizes and plenty of hard work, as Chad Orzel reveals
Read article: Earth, wind and water: how cosmic muons are helping to study volcanoes, cyclones and more
Dive into the depths of a volcano or spin into a cyclone as physicists tune into natural disasters using muon tomography
Read article: How Treesearch is studying the secrets of forest materials with synchrotron science
Treesearch partners with large-scale research facilities like the MAX IV synchrotron to realize sustainable products based on forest materials. Joe McEntee finds out more
Read article: German hyperinflation, and what it has to do with a Nobel prize
Runaway prices almost prevented Otto Stern from doing a seminal quantum experiment
Read article: Nobel’s three-winner limit does not reflect modern science
The 2013 physics prize for the Higgs boson illustrates a big challenge facing the Nobel committee
Read article: Watching paint dry, swimming drag, iconic paper centenary
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Who will win the Nobel Prize for Physics? Our predictions for 2023
We are keen on condensed matter and optical physics this year, or perhaps quantum
Read article: Neutrons and muons: ISIS provides both for a wide range of science
Part one of Physic World’s visit to the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Read article: Sand that flows uphill, handwritten LEDs
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Ukrainian scientists attempt to move forward following the ravages of war
Scientists in Ukraine are still in survival mode following Russia’s invasion of the country, but they are finding ways to continue their science
Read article: Plastic scintillation detectors prove a win-win in clinical physics research and education
Medscint eyes a paradigm shift in small-field dosimetry with its proprietary optical know-how in the field of plastic scintillation detectors
Read article: Peer review makes the grade
With this year's Peer Review Week kicking off on 23 September, journal editors from The Electrochemical Society share their perspectives on this essential part of the scientific pr...
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