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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

In depth: Geophysics & environmental physics

When Creativity met Necessity

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

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

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

Geoengineering: the pitfalls and politics

US geoscientist Ken Caldeira explains why he has reservations about tinkering with the climate

When the Earth's magnetic field flips

French geophysicist Vincent Courtillot discusses why the Earth's magnetic field occasionally flips

How to forecast an earthquake

Edwin Cartlidge investigates the latest in earthquake forecasting

Parting the clouds

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

One toise at a time

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

How big is your footprint?

Phil Marshall says the onus is on physicists to reduce their own carbon footprint

Between the lines

Books on the physics of animals, humans and cars, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Between the lines

A trio of books about doomsday and disaster

Seeking advice

Looking for a job? Margaret Harris sees what help is at hand for physics graduates finding their way in the job market

Beware delay

Alan Robock is unhappy with the weight given to the view of climate 'sceptics'

Knowledge from a vast effort

Rasmus Benestad looks at the link between computer models, politics and global warming

Between the lines

Climate special – the rest of the best of this month's books