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In depth: Nuclear & particle physics
Web life
Feb 21, 2013 Review
Matt Strassler's newsy blog on particle physics, the Higgs boson and more
The secret of life
Feb 7, 2013 4 comments Feature
David Jenkins and Oliver Kirsebom explore the mysterious nuclear energy level of carbon-12 that made life possible
Web life
Jan 24, 2013 Review
AstroBetter is a website dedicated to helping astrophysicists do lots of stuff, better
Fuelling the thorium dream
Jan 17, 2013 6 comments Review
An advocate's account of thorium's potential as an energy source, reviewed by Jess Gehin
Forming a critical mass of experts
Dec 13, 2012 2 comments Review
A book about how the nuclear profession developed, reviewed by Geoff Vaughan
Between the lines
Nov 22, 2012 1 comment Review
A graphic novel about the first atomic bomb and a biography of the anti-nuclear campaigner Joseph Rotblat, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Hans Bethe's early life
Oct 18, 2012 3 comments Review
Jeremy Bernstein reviews Nuclear Forces: the Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe
Cornering the Higgs boson
Oct 11, 2012 2 comments Feature
Michael Riordan continues his tale of the hunt for the Higgs boson
Pinning down the elusive Majorana fermion
Sep 13, 2012 Opinion
Carlo Beenakker talks to Physics World about Majorana fermions
Credit where credit's due?
Sep 13, 2012 3 comments Feature
Magdolna Hargittai gets to the bottom of the debate on whether female physicist Chien-Shiung Wu should have received a share of the 1957 Nobel prize
Delving into extra dimensions
Sep 6, 2012 10 comments Feature
Henrik Melbéus and Tommy Ohlsson look at the mind-bending theories of extra dimensions
Lessons learned by leading OPERA man
Aug 28, 2012 Opinion
Antonio Ereditato talks to Physics World about the superluminal-neutrino episode
A Cold War puzzle persists
Aug 23, 2012 Review
Istvan Hargittai reviews Simone Turchetti's The Pontecorvo Affair
The long road to the Higgs boson
Aug 9, 2012 5 comments Feature
Michael Riordan looks back at how the Higgs boson was predicted and the first quarter century of experimental searches for it
100 years of cosmic rays
Aug 1, 2012 3 comments Feature
A century on from the discovery of cosmic rays, Alan Watson examines the remaining mysteries
