Perform or perish? Guilty confessions of a YouTube physicist
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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