Some jobs in physics are better than others. Working a seven-day week installing sensors on an oil rig in Azerbaijan, as one physicist writing in Physics World recently described having to do, is ...

Computational physics jobs involve calculations and formulas. It combines physics, computer science and applied mathematics in order to provide scientific solutions to realistic and often complex ...

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a research and development organization that provides solutions to national security and scientific challenges. The laboratory was ...

A career in optical physics or engineering means knowing about the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. Since the discovery that ...

Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond. While the supply of accelerator physicists in the United States has grown modestly over the last decade, it hasn’t been able to catch up with ...

More than one-third of new physics PhD graduates in the United States accepted 'potentially permanent' positions across all sectors in 2013 or 2014 — the highest proportion in a decade, according to a ...

Scientists who moved from particle physics or astrophysics to medical physics sit down with Symmetry to talk about life, science and career changes. “I wasn’t one of those people who grew up knowing ...

The growth of physics-based roles in sectors such as green energy and data science is fuelling the need for employees with physics expertise. Sharon Ann Holgate explores the findings of a recent ...