Read article: Talking about Hawking, Brazil’s new synchrotron light source
In this podcast we chat about a new biography of Stephen Hawking and catch up with the director of Latin America’s only synchrotron light source
Read article: How Stephen Hawking became the world’s most famous physicist
Laura Hiscott reviews Hawking Hawking: the Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Charles Seife
Read article: Space engineer takes over as head of the MIT Media Lab
Dava Newman, an expert in the human exploration of space, became the lab's director on 1 July
Read article: James Peebles: a life in cosmology
Nobel laureate and cosmologist James Peebles from Princeton University on winning the prize, cosmological models and his new book
Read article: Ask me anything: Jim Al-Khalili – ‘I find quantum mechanics endlessly rewarding, fascinating and frustrating’
Careers advice from Jim Al-Khalili, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Surrey and award-winning science communicator
Read article: Catherine Heymans appointed first female Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Astrophysicist becomes the first woman to hold top Scottish job since its foundation in 1834
Read article: Reaching for Mars: advice for realizing the biggest dreams
Andrew Glester reviews Dream Big: How to Reach for Your Stars by Abigail Harrison
Read article: Ask me anything: Tim Gershon
Careers tips from a professor of physics at the University of Warwick who studies flavour physics, CP violation and heavy-quark physics
Read article: Japanese Nobel-prize-winning semiconductor pioneer Isamu Akasaki dies aged 92
Akasaki was instrumental in the creation of blue LEDs in the 1980s and 1990s that led to a wide range of applications
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘We’ve been surprised at how easy it’s become to do high-level experiments from our homes’
After COVID made crowded control rooms hazardous, Ben Penaflor and colleagues at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility developed work-arounds
