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Perform or perish? Guilty confessions of a YouTube physicist

9 August 201315 August 2018 by Philip Moriarty

This week is YouTube’s Geek Week so it seems a particularly (in)opportune moment to come clean about some niggling doubts I’ve been having of late about physics … Read more

Categories News and opinionTags Science communication, Sixty Symbols, YouTubeLeave a comment

Curiosity has achieved its goal – what’s next in the search for life on mars?

8 August 20132 August 2018 by Amy Shira Teitel

One year ago this week people around the world held their breaths as Nasa’s Curiosity rover began its landing sequence. The complicated sky crane, which … Read more

Categories News and opinionTags spaceLeave a comment

The irresistible rise of the standard model

29 July 20137 August 2018 by Tara Shears

Physicists don’t take summer holidays. Instead, they go to summer conferences. This year’s conference, in Stockholm, made a splash with the announcement that two experiments at … Read more

Categories News and opinionTags Cern, large hadron collider, particle physicsLeave a comment

Can we do more to help academic parents?

18 July 201324 August 2018 by Elizabeth Tasker

The youngest attendee at a conference on the ‘Regulation of Star Formation in Molecular Gas’ this June was Tomas, the one year old son of … Read more

Categories News and opinionTags Childcare, Women in scienceLeave a comment

Let’s make the UK a world leader in proton therapy

15 July 201321 November 2018 by Suzie Sheehy
A photograph of the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Centre with dark blue cloudy skies above.

Why doesn’t the UK have proton therapy? Actually, we do. Back in 1984, when proton therapy was still a research topic in physics labs, the … Read more

Categories News and opinionTags Cancer, Proton therapy, ResearchLeave a comment

The numbers game: where are the women?

13 July 201321 August 2018 by Athene Donald

This year’s Institute of Physics (IOP) awards  were announced a couple of days ago, a list of impressive individuals who have shown mastery of their subject. Heading … Read more

Categories News and opinionTags Gender, IOP Awards, WomenLeave a comment
2 July 201328 November 2018 by Suzie Sheehy
X-ray showing comparison of dose distributions between proton therapy and radiation therapy

Particle accelerators are famously large machines. The largest and most famous one even has it in the name: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). When you … Read more

Categories News and opinionTags Cancer, Proton therapy, RadiotherapyLeave a comment

Why physicists need to get on Twitter

26 June 20131 August 2018 by Jude Dineley

Physicists, are you on Twitter? If not, it might not just be you missing out. The case for scientists to join the community of 200 … Read more

Categories News and opinionTags social mediaLeave a comment
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