Highlights Physics World  December 2019

Features: The challenges of airborne wind energy

Quanta: Merry Christmas to ewe

Frontiers: The slippery physics of icy interfaces

News & Analysis: Fabiola Gianotti to remain as CERN boss until 2025

News & Analysis: Endangered elements

Forum: Why public engagement is good

Critical Point: The power of paper tools

Transactions: The company with a twist in the tale

Movie mishaps and space errors

Features: Using muons to image nuclear waste

Reviews: Occult arts and sceptical sciences

Reviews: Paul Steinhardt: the quest for quasicrystals

Reviews: A mathematical mindset

Reviews: Why Einstein went to Norfolk

Reviews: Extremely absurd and incredibly fun

Reviews: Beyond biology: the science of race

Reviews: Why this physicist was a tempestuous genius

Careers: Meet the scientists helping others’ careers

Havovy Cama: from physics to business

The latest physics jobs and courses

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