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Editor's choice

Apr 1, 2012

Free to view: a special focus issue of Physics World examining some of the latest applications of optics and lasers

Reviews

When Creativity met Necessity

Roger Bridgman reviews Mad Like Tesla and How James Watt Invented the Copier

Between the lines: fiction special

A round-up of recent fiction books with a physics theme, reviewed by Margaret Harris and Matin Durrani

Reality bites

Vlatko Vedral reviews Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality

Web life

Universe Sandbox: an interactive space simulator that allows you to build your own solar system, fling asteroids at the Earth and send a teapot into orbit

Doing physics – readers' pictures

A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge

Einstein, the travelling physicist

Alberto A Martínez reviews Josef Eisinger's Einstein on the Road

Between the lines

Books on bubble physics, quantum exiles and arty photos of particle accelerators, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Return to Macondo

Alastair Fraser reviews Joel Achenbach's A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: the Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher

Web life

Peter Coles' blog In the Dark offers an astrophysicist's perspective on science policy, poetry and jazz

Portrait of our planet – readers' pictures

A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge

The time of our lives

Dan Falk reviews Adam Frank's About Time: From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives

Between the lines

Books on waves, mathematical puzzles and quantum analogies, reviewed by Tushna Commissariat and Margaret Harris

Physics for students, not poets

Brian Clegg reviews Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill's Quantum Physics for Poets

Web life

Dig into your own earth-science data with the Earth Exploration Toolbook

Light in physics – readers' pictures

A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge