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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

Uplifting thoughts

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

Web life

NerdyDayTrips is full of suggestions for science-oriented tourists

For Newton, a right Hooke

There was much more to Robert Hooke than Hooke's law, so why don't we know about it? Jon Cartwright discovers how a genius was betrayed

One toise at a time

Terry Quinn reviews Measure of the Earth: the Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World by Larrie D Ferreiro

Web life

A picture is worth a thousand words: Ethan Siegel's Starts With a Bang

Opportunities lost

Paul Mueller reviews The Abacus and the Cross: the Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown

Between the lines

Books on extrasolar planets and smart thinking using mathematics, reviewed by Margaret Harris

The flawed multiverse

Alastair Rae reviews The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

The geek shall inherit the Earth

Srinath Perur reviews Geek Nation by Angela Saini

Between the lines

Books on gamma-ray bursts and (other) wonders of the universe, reviewed by Margaret Harris and James Dacey

Web life

Explore the Red Planet with NASA's Be A Martian

The quantum century

Kenneth W Ford reviews The Quantum Story: a History in 40 Moments by Jim Baggott

Between the lines

Books on scientific myth-making, soft matter and the history of the Royal Society, reviewed by Margaret Harris and Matin Durrani

Web life

"Citizen science" meets the Kuiper belt in IceHunters

Seeking the queens of science

Amy Bug reviews The Madame Curie Complex by Julie Des Jardins