Read article: Language learning in children is like a phase transition
The ability that small children suddenly acquire to form complex sentences can be explained by the physics of statistical mechanics
Read article: Strange thinking
Jane Hesling reviews Weird Math: a Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee
Read article: This article is based on fictional events
David Boyt explains how Lars von Trier's 2011 film Melancholia inspired a real scientific paper on climate in the journal Nonlinearity
Read article: Field theory of amorphous solids describes toothpaste, concrete and more
Better understanding of solid-liquid hybrids could lead to better materials
Read article: Joel’s conference
Robert P Crease meets the US statistical physicist famed for his unique scientific meetings
Read article: Bright ideas and their architects
Stephen Wolfram's collection of essays details big ideas and the people who thought of them, although some of the tales are rather partial, says Tony Mann
Read article: Web life: Ice Flows
Guide penguins to their Antarctic feeding grounds and learn about the behaviour of ice sheets in the Ice Flows game
Read article: Flash Physics: Asteroid missions, mathematical physicist bags C N R Rao Prize, ultrashort electron emission
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Loops of ribbon inspire physicists
Research could boost our understanding of proteins and plants
Read article: Flash Physics: Particle pioneers bag J J Sakurai Prize, Brian Bowsher appointed new head of STFC, colliding light waves may create magnetic monopoles
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
