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Physics World magazine special issue on energy and climate change

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In depth: December 2002

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William Thomson: king of Victorian physics

The life and times of Lord Kelvin

Opinion

A very strange year

2002 was full of highs and lows

Finding the flaw in falsifiability

Science is more complex than Karl Popper thought

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Doughnuts reveal life's secrets

Kepler and Tycho Brahe: the odd couple

The story of two, very different, astronomers

European best-sellers in 2002