Editor's choice

Big-science supplement

Oct 3, 2011

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

In depth: Culture, history & society

Cooking up a storm

Dec 1, 2011 4 comments Review

Peter Barham reviews Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet

Astronomical sense and nonsense

Nov 24, 2011 2 comments Review

Margaret Harris reviews Hindsight and Popular Astronomy by Alan B Whiting

Between the lines

Nov 24, 2011 Review

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

Nov 17, 2011 Review

NerdyDayTrips is full of suggestions for science-oriented tourists

The brave new-media world

Nov 10, 2011 1 comment Opinion

Chad Orzel says physicists have to get used to doing science in the open

For Newton, a right Hooke

Nov 8, 2011 8 comments Review

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

Mikhail who?

Nov 3, 2011 3 comments Opinion

Robert P Crease marks the tercentenary of Russia's scientific father

One toise at a time

Oct 27, 2011 2 comments Review

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

Web life

Oct 27, 2011 Review

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

Opportunities lost

Oct 20, 2011 1 comment Review

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

How big is your footprint?

Oct 12, 2011 1 comment Opinion

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

Evaluations evaluated

Oct 6, 2011 Opinion

Robert P Crease reports on your suggestions for evaluating PhD candidates

Big science in a big world

Sep 30, 2011 Feature

James Poskett explores how Ernest Rutherford, who 100 years ago revealed his proposal of the atom's structure, also helped to pioneer modern international science