Having emerged from amateur beginnings in the backyards of radio engineers, radio astronomy is now the focus of elite, international global consortia. Emma Chapman...

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Robert P Crease travels to Reed College in the US, which is unique for having the only nuclear reactor in the...

This episode of the Physics World Stories podcast features an interview with Kai Bird, co-author of the book that inspired the...

One hundred and fifty years ago in the US, the combined power of four strong...

The UK government has announced a tech industry agreement it claims will form a plan for AI safety testing. With various types of AI being...

Today and tomorrow, a mansion on London’s leafy outskirts is, for the second time in...

Ian Randall reviews Depravity’s Rainbow by Lewis Bush Ettersburg Castle, Germany, 1926. A previously unremarkable student who had shown...

This summer, the theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer captured widespread public fascination thanks to the film...

Andrew Glester reviews the film Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan When...

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Oppenheimer depicts the events surrounding the Manhattan atomic-bomb project but what do Physics World writers make of it? Here are their...