Read article: Physics, technology and the Olympics
Physics, technology and the Olympics
What effect does technology have on the performance of athletes, asks Steve Haake
Read article: Physics, technology and the Olympics
Read article: Solving a knotty problem
Solving a knotty problem
Publishers seem to have hit on a winning formula for non-fiction books in recent years. Take a seemingly esoteric subject, mix in lots of history, add plenty of anecdotes, keep it short, and print the...
Visionary glimpse into the 21st century
A more detailed review by Phil Anderson of Princeton University, US is in the November issue of Physics World magazine. This delightfully written little book is full of typically Dysonian intellectual...
Who will win this year’s Nobel Prize?
Who do you think will win? Will the prize be awarded for the discovery of the top quark, Bose-Einstein condensation, the gluon, the semiconductor laser, the anisotropy in the cosmic background radiati...
Read article: Game, set and slower match
Game, set and slower match
To many sports fans, the month of June is synonymous with the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Thousands of people will flock to the All England Lawn Tennis Club to watch the players battle it out on the ...
‘Rocket science’: the facts
A frequent complaint at gatherings of senior physicists is that that everyone with a PhD in theoretical physics abandons research to follow a lucrative career as a “rocket scientist” in th...
Problems or prophecies?
There is a spectre haunting this book – the spectre of John Horgan, the journalist whose successful book The End of Science tweaked the collective nose of the scientific community when it was pu...
How the Nobel prize was won
The Nobel Foundation chooses Nobel prize winners with the utmost secrecy. But in 1974 it agreed to allow historians access to any of its archives over fifty year old. Since then Crawford has documente...
Breaking free from the post-doc trap
Genevieve Haddad is typical of many scientists. She did a degree, a PhD and a post-doc, but then realized she did not want to spend the next few years of her life “getting to know more and more ...
Read article: The physics of football
The physics of football
No-one forgets a great goal in football. As players from 32 countries prepare for the 1998 World Cup in France, find out how top footballers strike the ball to maximum effect
