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The lure of synchrotronsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Robert P Crease asks how sound are the arguments that the next generation of synchrotron sources are an essential tool for meeting the energy challenge? (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - November 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

How to publish a scientific commentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Rick Trebino relives the time he tried – and failed – to have a comment published in a scientific journal (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - November 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Web life: Colliding ParticlesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Short films to get you ready for the switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - November 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

A very good EnglishmanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Graham Farmelo examines the letters of nuclear theorist Rudolf Peierls (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - November 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Human spaceflight: science or spectacle?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The big debate: David Clements and Ian Crawford spar over whether human spaceflight is worth the effort (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - November 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Recipes for planet formationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Michael R Meyer describes how studies of extrasolar planets are helping us to understand how planetary systems form and evolve (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - November 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Wrong but usefulEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Gavin Schmidt explains how climate models are becoming an essential tool for politicians and policymakers (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - October 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

The road to sustainabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
"Sustainability" is the hottest topic in energy research today, but what does it actually mean? George Crabtree and John Sarrao describe what makes a technology sustainable, and outline the materials-science challenges standing between us and clean, long-lasting energy (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - October 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Challenges in tackling climate changeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In order to limit global warming by reducing carbon emissions, Lord Browne argues that the biggest barriers to a low-carbon economy in the UK are not scientific or technological but political (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - October 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Publicize or perishEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Joseph Romm urges scientists to do much more to warn the public of the dangers of climate change (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - October 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Sustainability made simpleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Niall MacKay and Roger Edgar assess what the UK government's new climate adviser has to say on energy (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - October 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Web life: Clim'CityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Try the game that lets you stave off climate change (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - October 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Illuminating physics for studentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
David Griffiths says that the role of a physics teacher should be to illuminate the subject's intrinsic interest, beauty and power – and warns that attempts to make it more marketable using gimmicks, false advertising or dilution are bound to be counterproductive (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 3, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Less reality, more securityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New results in quantum cryptography show that the original protocol based on Bell's inequality is so powerful that it extends beyond the quantum realm. Artur Ekert traces it all back to Einstein's insights about physical reality (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Once a physicist: Subramaniam RamadoraiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The chief executive of Tata Consultancy Services (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

A physicist's life-cycleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Long-term career satisfaction for academics is closely linked to the type of institution where they work, as Joseph C Hermanowicz discovered when he set out to follow physicists through their careers (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Web life: Sixty SymbolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Video clips of top physics symbols (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Your best unitEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Robert P Crease discusses the origin of some units of measurement, and asks for your favourites (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Plan B for climate changeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Techniques to manipulate the Earth's climate are now rightly entering mainstream debate (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Dreams of a quantum pioneerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Emilio Segrè looks at the relationship between Pauli and Jung (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Of gluons, atoms and stringsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An unusual alliance between physicists who study ultrahot plasmas and ultracold atoms is yielding intriguing results – and may even lead to an experimental test for string theory, as Barbara Jacak reveals (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Engineering the climateEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Geoengineering has so far been something of a taboo topic for climate scientists. Peter Cox and Hazel Jeffery explain why it is now time to take it seriously (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - September 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Threats to ultra-high-field MRIEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new European directive designed to prevent workers from being exposed to high magnetic fields could potentially have a severe impact on research into magnetic resonance imaging, warns Denis Le Bihan (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - August 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Diamond coatings are branching outEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Chris Walker looks at some of the uses of a novel amorphous diamond material (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

RGA User Group offers broad appealEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Robin Hathaway explains how a user group provides a forum for sharing experiences and discovering new ways to exploit the powerful diagnostic features of residual gas analysers across a wide range of applications (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Chamber simulates space on EarthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Stan Grisnik describes how NASA’s huge craft-testing facility can recreate the vacuum conditions of space. (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Once a physicist: Conrad C Lautenbacher JrEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Retired US Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C Lautenbacher Jr served as the administrator of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 2001 to 2008 (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Scientists in the newsroomEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Media fellowships can help physicists improve the way that they communicate their results to the outside world, and also offer valuable insights into how the other half live, as Helen Czerski describes (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Web life: Planet SciCastEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bite-size videos about science (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

From prairie to energy frontierEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Robert Roser examines the history of Fermilab (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

A tale of two mindsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Pakistani theorist Abdus Salam was the first Muslim scientist to win a Nobel prize. So why, wonders Gordon Fraser, have Salam’s achievements gone largely ignored by his homeland, whereas India has treated its great mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan so differently? (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Beyond the wonder materialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The remarkable properties of graphene — a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that was first isolated in 2004 — have produced a wave of discoveries in fundamental physics. But its new chemical cousin, graphane, may prove more amazing still, as Kostya Novoselov explains. (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

The Earth – for physicistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Scientists are beginning to understand the extent to which the evolution of our planet has been shaped by collisions, bombardments and catastrophes. John Baez tells the violent history of a pale-blue dot (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Religion explainedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Robert P Crease uncovers the secret of the conflict between science and religion in responses to a Physics World survey (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 31, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

In praise of DarwinEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Darwin was no physicist, but his approach to science will be familiar to us (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 5, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Once a physicist: Bruce McWilliamsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Life at the top of a semiconductor company (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Tools for learningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some instruments in teaching laboratories may look old-fashioned, but those wooden boxes can hold surprisingly advanced equipment. George Herold describes his career designing experiments for undergraduate labs (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

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How protein folding can be fun (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Between chance and necessityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Andrew Steane reviews Stuart Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Darwin’s legacyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Born 200 years ago, Charles Darwin is rightly celebrated for his work explaining the origin of species. But in setting a new standard for what an explanation of nature should be like, he also had a huge impact on physics and cosmology, as Leonard Susskind explains (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Postcards from the brainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sam Wang describes some of the physics of our most complex organ (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Do cells care about physics?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Startling new discoveries show that there is more to the cell than just genetics and biochemistry, explains Jochen Guck (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

The quantum lifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The idea that quantum mechanics can explain many fundamental aspects of life is resurging, as Paul Davies reveals (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

The call of the wildEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Robert P Crease talks to a former string theorist who found what he wanted in science when he applied the tools of physics to fundamental questions in biology (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

How physics can inspire biologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Alexei Kornyshev thinks that physicists and biologists are now working more closely together than ever before, but that barriers to closer collaboration still exist (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - July 1, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

The power of roboticsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Robotics competitions supply a vital missing link in science and engineering education, says Robert P Crease (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - June 6, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Once a physicist: Scott Russell SandersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The essayist and English professor with his roots in physics (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - June 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Don't panicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The job market for new graduates and career-changers in 2009 is not great, but there are signs that physicists may be better equipped than most, as Margaret Harris explains (Source: PhysicsWorld Articles)
Source: PhysicsWorld Articles - June 2, 2009 Category: Physics Source Type: journals

Is there really no place like home?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Web life: PhunEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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