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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: Culture, history & society

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

Doing physics – readers' pictures

A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge

In the wake of Fukushima

Steven Judge and Hiroyuki Kuwahara report on efforts to monitor radioactive contamination in areas near Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station

Venus: it's now or never

As next month's transit of Venus nears, Jay M Pasachoff examines the science and history of these exceptionally rare events

Atmospheric tales

Robert P Crease asks why the discovery of Venus's atmosphere is still so controversial

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson makes the case for space exploration

Grand visions for space "trigger a wave of innovation", says US astrophysicist

Web life

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

The cat that never dies

Robert P Crease explains the enduring fascination with Schrödinger's cat

Portrait of our planet – readers' pictures

A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge

The perfect storm

Richard Corfield investigates the science behind the sinking of the Titanic

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