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Editor's choice

Oct 3, 2011

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

In depth: Astronomy, astrophysics & cosmology

Fermilab's next frontier

Margaret Harris learns about Fermilab's plans for the post-Tevatron era

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

Ad astra! To the stars!

Sidney Perkowitz explores how we might achieve interstellar travel

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

Copernicus's revolutionary moment

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

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

Web life

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

Between the lines

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

Relativity's new revolution

David Appell explains why rogue black holes could be cannonballing through the universe

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