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: Engineering world-changing materials: Nicola Spaldin on the importance of curiosity-driven research and what it means to be a physicist
Materials scientist Nicola Spaldin talks about her award-winning research and her somewhat circuitous career path
Read article: Moore’s law: further progress will push hard on the boundaries of physics and economics
James McKenzie pays tribute to the foresight of Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel who died earlier this year
Read article: The physics of languages
Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu and David Sánchez explain how physics has spread into the field of linguistics
Read article: Creative licence: how to stimulate innovation and generate new ideas
Dennis Sherwood on the creative process and how to grow a good idea
