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Taking the leap – how to prepare for your future in the quantum workforce

Researchers with a large network of unique collaborators have longer careers, finds study

Female scientists tend to work in more tightly connected groups than men, which can negatively impact their careers

Management insights catalyse scientific success

Effective management training can equip scientists and engineers with powerful tools to boost the impact of their work, identify opportunities for innovation, and build high-perfor...

Careers in physics

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Peering inside the biological nano-universe: Barbora Špačková on unveiling individual molecules moving in real time

Ask me anything: Andrew Weld: ‘You’re probably going to be working for over 40 years, so make sure you enjoy what you do’

Andrew Weld is the head of research and development at QLM technologies

Laura Tobin: the meteorologist and broadcaster who won’t stop talking about climate change

The Good Morning Britain meteorologist says it’s important to be open to opportunity

Ask me anything: Catherine Phipps – ‘Seeing an aircraft take off and knowing you contributed to the engine design is an amazing feeling’

Catherine Phipps describes her life as an engineer at aircraft-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce

‘I was always interested in the structure of things’: particle physicist Çiğdem İşsever on the importance of thinking about physics early

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Leading-edge facilities and cross-disciplinary collaboration underpin AWE’s nuclear remit

Ask me anything: Daniel Hook – ‘The skills I learned as a researcher are applicable and helpful in any walk of life’

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Education and outreach

How ‘pop Newton’ can help inspire the next generation

Richard Easther and Frank Wang argue that a "Newton first" approach can be better for undergraduates than focusing solely on "modern physics"

Non-physicists find opportunity in the quantum industry, improving the university experience

We also chat about the 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics

A quarter of UK students say school physics teaching is poor

A survey by the Ogden Trust finds that half of those that didn’t take physics post-16 say they did not enjoy the subject

Celebrating attosecond science, physics tournament focuses on fun

We chat about ultrashort pulses and ultrasharp students in this podcast

Effective Science Communication (3rd edition) with Sam Illingworth

Available to watch now, sponsored by the IOP Publishing ebook, Effective Science Communication, learn more about science communication

Data science CDT puts industry collaboration at its heart

The Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) for Innovation in Data Intensive Science is preparing the next generation of physicists for their future careers

Diversity and inclusion

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Why we need gender equality in big science

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Embracing Neurodiversity in Research: How does academic publishing need to change?

Institute of Physics launches new inclusion programme for universities

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Tsung-Dao Lee: Nobel laureate famed for work on parity violation dies aged 97

In the 1950s Lee proposed that "parity" is violated by the weak force

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Physicist Rosemary Fowler honoured 75 years after discovering the kaon particle

Fowler left academia during her PhD but has now been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol

**Mitigating tokamak plasma disruption bags Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Outstanding Paper Prize**

Vinodh Bandaru and colleagues win for their research on simulating “runaway electron beam termination”

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Bringing the second quantum revolution to the rest of the world

A panel discussion about quantum technologies in low and middle-income countries offers perspectives on how to overcome barriers to participation

Battery boss: physicist Martin Freer will run UK’s Faraday Institution

Freer will take up the role on 2 September replacing Pam Thomas as chief executive officer

From the lab to Ukraine’s front line

Physicist Holly Tann and colleague Adam McQuire explain how their non-profit organization Casus Pax is helping people in Ukraine

David Charbonneau and Sara Seager bag the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Charbonneau and Seager share $1m prize for their work characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets

Peter Higgs didn’t like talking about himself. Here’s what he told us about CERN, collaboration and his career

Peter Higgs discusses his career in physics with Matin Durrani in an interview recorded in 2012

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Silverstone racetrack hosts Institute of Physics summer festival

Matin Durrani brings you the highlights of the 2024 summer festival of the Institute of Physics

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Climate physicist Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo elected Mexican president in landslide win

With a background in climate science, Sheinbaum Pardo also becomes Mexico’s first female president

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A career in physics: a universe of possibilities

Discover tips, interviews and case studies in Physics World Careers 2024

‘My career has not been a straight line’: Craig Jantzen on switching from nuclear science to diplomacy

Craig Jantzen says his past self would never have imagined where his career has taken him

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From pulsars and fast radio bursts to gravitational waves and beyond: a family quest for Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer

Astrophysicists Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin talk to Sidney Perkowitz about navigating science and academia as a married couple

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