How plasmas can improve food and agriculture
Dave Graves talks about applications from food safety to better fertilizers
Tackling the grand challenges
Nobel laureate Steven Chu from Stanford University talks about his successes as energy secretary and tells Richard Blaustein how the US can collaborate in a competitive environment
Solving challenges in medical device design
Phil Marsden discusses his career in physics, setting up the company Unitive Design & Analysis and his latest role as chair of the IOP’s Medical Physics Group
A broader range of experiments
Anatole von Lilienfeld explains how machine learning is creating new opportunities for research across all areas of the physical sciences
Recognizing academic excellence in the Southeastern Conference
Astrophysicist Gabriela González of Louisiana State University explains why the recognition that comes with the SEC Professor of the Year award is so important to her
Making it in 2D materials research
Mar Garcia Hernandez describes fabrication challenges and solutions for 2D materials
Searching for new worlds
Nobel laureate Didier Queloz on winning the award and the next step for exoplanet research
Pushing e-textiles towards the ‘plain of productivity’
Entrepreneur and designer Madison Maxey speaks to Margaret Harris about the materials-science challenges of making electronic textiles
The past, present and future of computing in high-energy physics
Federico Carminati, the chief innovation officer at CERN openlab, assesses how particle physics has shaped (and been shaped by) trends such as big data and machine learning
Neural networks extract information from sparse datasets
An algorithm developed by Cambridge physicist Gareth Conduit and inspired by many-body quantum mechanics is the driving force behind a novel materials-science spin-out
