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Has Bush been good for science?

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

As US President George W Bush’s eight-year term in office comes to an end, his official science advisor John H Marburger argues that science in the US is flourishing following a decade of increased federal spending

Beauty and the beast

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

In his 100th column for Physics World, Robert P Crease examines the Large Hadron Collider – the biggest physics experiment of all time – and wonders whether we can call it “beautiful”

The large hadron computer

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Plans for dealing with the torrent of data from the Large Hadron Collider’s detectors have made the CERN particle-physics lab, yet again, a pioneer in computing as well as physics. Andreas Hirstius describes the challenges of processing and storing data in the age of petabyte science

A new view of particle physics

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

CERN engineer Sergio Cittolin depicts the Large Hadron Collider as Leonardo da Vinci might have seen it

The digital universe

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Seth Lloyd looks at the possibility of solving the conundrum of quantum gravity with the tools of information and computation

Nature's statute book

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

John Taylor looks at the top laws in science

Blog life: The Adventures of My Pet Hamster

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Steve Sekula on running but going nowhere

One year left to go

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

As they enter their final year of undergraduate study, six students from around the globe share with Physics World their perspectives on physics, their courses and the future

Once a physicist: Subhankar Banerjee

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

From physics to Arctic photography

Two decades and counting...

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Opening this special issue marking the 20th anniversary of the launch of Physics World, Matin Durrani says that the magazine still has a vital role to play in the electronic age