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Oct 3, 2011

Download the Physics World supplement looking at the challenges of building and designing next-generation "big-science" facilities

Reviews

The dream of open science

Matin Durrani reviews Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked Science

Web life

SciEnts and Sciencelive – two sites that offer slightly different takes on scientific outreach and entertainment

Parting the clouds

Arnold Wolfendale reviews Earth: the Operator’s Manual by Richard Alley

Between the lines

A new biography of Stephen Hawking and a history of radioactivity, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Voyagers of discovery

John Zarnecki reviews Stephen Pyne’s Voyager: Seeking New Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery

Web life

Faraday's Cage Is Where You Put Schrödinger’s Cat – Cherish Bauer-Reich’s blog about physics and engineering – offers an unusual perspective on the life of a PhD student, teacher and researcher

Between the lines: Christmas special

Books on time travel, calculus, science experiments for children and more, reviewed by Margaret Harris, Matin Durrani and Tushna Commissariat

Lights, camera, science

James Kakalios reviews Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema by David Kirby

Quirks of memory

Graham Farmelo reviews Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics by John Moffat

Copernicus's revolutionary moment

André Goddu reviews A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel

Cooking up a storm

Peter Barham reviews Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet

Astronomical sense and nonsense

Margaret Harris reviews Hindsight and Popular Astronomy by Alan B Whiting

Between the lines

Books on fundamental constants and the "science of wonder", plus a comic-book guide to the universe, reviewed by Matin Durrani and Margaret Harris

Uplifting thoughts

Ted Forgan reviews Rising Force: the Magic of Magnetic Levitation by James Livingston

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NerdyDayTrips is full of suggestions for science-oriented tourists