Scene of the crime: the physics of spattered blood
Sidney Perkowitz looks at how physics is helping to beef up the occasionally unreliable forensic technique of “blood-spatter analysis”, while James McKenzie examines the commercial prospects for LiFi. Also this month, Lars Brink, a Swedish particle theorist who has served on the Nobel Committee for Physics on eight occasions, reveals exactly what it takes to win the Nobel Prize for Physics. There’s also an interview with Donna Strickland – who shared the 2018 Nobel prize and became only the third female physicist to win the award.
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