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Features
The life of psi
May 2, 2013 17 comments
Jon Cartwright explores whether wavefunctions are physically real
The knotted strands of life
Apr 2, 2013 2 comments
Davide Marenduzzo and colleagues explore the physics of DNA knots
Medal-winning presentations
Mar 7, 2013
Sharon Ann Holgate examines how lessons from sports psychology can help scientists give better talks and presentations
In praise of weakness
Mar 7, 2013 10 comments
Aephraim Steinberg and colleagues describe how "weak measurements" are transforming our knowledge of the quantum world
The secret of life
Feb 7, 2013 4 comments
David Jenkins and Oliver Kirsebom explore the mysterious nuclear energy level of carbon-12 that made life possible
Opinion
Measuring culture
Apr 11, 2013 8 comments
Physicists can measure objects but, asks Robert P Crease, can they measure values too?
The quantum moment
Mar 14, 2013 4 comments
Robert P Crease on why quantum mechanics is now as culturally significant as Newtonian mechanics
Thinking big about the future
Feb 28, 2013
Kirstin Matthews and Padraig Moloney argue for more basic science spending
Game-show science
Feb 7, 2013 3 comments
Robert P Crease on why science never is an idealized process that follows simple rules
Reviews
Consciousness from the ground up
May 16, 2013 5 comments
Werner Loewenstein's Physics in Mind, reviewed by Seth Lloyd
Web life
May 16, 2013
NASA's Trajectory Browser site lets you plan your own mission to a planet or asteroid
Life among the MERtians
Apr 25, 2013
What's it like to work on Mars? Stephen J Pyne reviews an anthropologist's account of the team behind the Mars Exploration Rovers
Web life
Apr 25, 2013
A website full of beautiful and intriguing MRI scans of, er, fruits and vegetables
