New horizons for R&D
The globalization of industrial research and development is now a fact of life. R&D was once a corporate function, performed on a single site near a company’s headquarters. But now the incre...
Reality is not a hoax
A year ago, as last June’s Physics World was going to press, our North American correspondent contacted us with a late-breaking story about Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University who had...
What science policies?
If a week is a long time in politics – and the election campaign leading up to the UK general election on the first of this month has certainly proved that it is – then the past five years...
Read article: 100 years of the electron: from discovery to application
100 years of the electron: from discovery to application
Joseph John Thomson – universally known as J J – discovered the electron 100 years ago this month
Life after Schrödinger
It is difficult to imagine how a discovery in physics could reverberate around the world in the same way that Dolly the cloned sheep has in recent weeks. As biologists clone sheep and monkeys – ...
The continued menace of communism in Russia
1. It is already nearly five years that the self-acclaimed ‘world socialist system’ crashed and the USSR broke into pieces. One might think that the grandiose experiment over the lives of ...
Thinking small
As Physics World went to press in mid-February, the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, was playing down reports that evidence for new physics – rumoured to be supersymmetry – had been fo...
Too little?
The announcement that undergraduate physics teaching is to be phased out at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has sent a shiver through the UK physics community. Students admitted last year will fin...
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This is the 100th issue of Physics World. The occasion is marked by a small section that starts with an article by Philip Campbell, who edited the first 85 issues of Physics World before leaving to be...
