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Laura Hiscott

Laura Hiscott is a freelance science journalist. She previously worked as reviews and careers editor of Physics World in 2021–2022.

Laura studied physics at Imperial College London, before getting experience in science writing at the European Southern Observatory and the European Molecular Biology Organization. In her free time she enjoys hiking, yoga and reading.

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China overtakes the US in terms of research quality, finds study

A new analysis by researchers in the US also found that China had already overtaken the European Union in terms of research quality by 2015

Off the beaten track: from school straight to working on the national physical standards

Laura Hiscott speaks to Perdi Potgieter, a research scientist at NPL who left school at 16 to do an apprenticeship

Picture of a pair of sneakers from above with arrows pointing in different directions drawn on the ground around the sneakers

Physics World Careers 2022 guide is now out

From quantum technology to green jobs, Physics World Careers 2022 showcases the range of career options open to physicists

Ask me anything: Donna Strickland – ‘I wouldn’t have wanted to know that I would win a Nobel prize’

Donna Strickland shared the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for her work developing the technique of “chirped pulse amplification”

Time for a change: what it’s like to win a prize for work you did before switching careers

Akihiro Kojima and Mike Lee, winners of the 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, on developing new materials for solar cells and switching into different career areas

Group of students in physics and engineering working on electronics robotics project in laboratory session

Lab gender roles not due to personal choice, finds study

Male and female task preferences for experimental work are largely the same despite what is seen in the lab

**Laughing in the face of danger: how Netflix’s Don’t Look Up captures climate complexity**

Laura Hiscott reviews the film Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay and available now on Netflix

Indefatigable wonder: how Brian Cox’s latest show conveys the immense scale of the cosmos

Laura Hiscott reviews the new television show Universe, presented by Brian Cox, which was broadcast last year and is now available online

New year, new goals: physicists’ resolutions for 2022

Laura Hiscott reveals physicists' new year's resolutions

Joining the dots: how seemingly unrelated fields of science are fundamentally linked

Laura Hiscott reviews Eight Improbable Possibilities: the Mystery of the Moon and Other Implausible Scientific Truths by John Gribbin

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