Editorial – Pulling together after Brexit

Like many physicists in the UK, I spent the final Friday of June in shock. Voters in Britain had just opted by a margin of 52% to 48% to leave the European Union (EU) – and suddenly nothing in the world seemed to make sense any more. I’d never really thought a majority would want a British exit (Brexit) from the EU. As with the referendum over Scottish independence from the UK in 2014, I’d assumed voters would come to their senses at the last minute.

Physics World: reporting from the frontiers of science

e-EPS spoke with Matin Durrani, the editor of Physics World, the membership magazine of the UK Institute of Physics.

Who is Physics World aimed at?

The readers of Physics World, and its sister website physicsworld.com, all have one thing in common: a love and passion for physics – whether they’re using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to search for the Higgs boson or building a new…