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Ad astra! To the stars!
Jan 12, 2012 7 comments Feature
Sidney Perkowitz explores how we might achieve interstellar travel
Presidential pledges
Jan 5, 2012 5 comments Opinion
Robert P Crease proposes pledges to help voters to evaluate US presidential candidates
Quiz of the year 2011
Dec 16, 2011 Feature
Think you know what happened in the world of physics this year? Try our quiz
Let there be a year of light
Dec 15, 2011 1 comment Opinion
Luisa Cifarelli calls for 2015 to be the International Year of Light
Between the lines: Christmas special
Dec 15, 2011 Review
Books on time travel, calculus, science experiments for children and more, reviewed by Margaret Harris, Matin Durrani and Tushna Commissariat
Lights, camera, science
Dec 8, 2011 Review
James Kakalios reviews Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema by David Kirby
Quirks of memory
Dec 8, 2011 1 comment Review
Graham Farmelo reviews Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics by John Moffat
Copernicus's revolutionary moment
Dec 1, 2011 4 comments Review
André Goddu reviews A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
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
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
