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In depth: Culture, history & society
My life on Mars
Oct 2, 2012 3 comments Feature
Ashley Dale recounts his experiences during a two-week stint at the Mars Desert Research Station, a facility in the Utah desert
The art of science blogging
Sep 27, 2012 2 comments Opinion
Mark Trodden talks to Physics World about his experiences as a blogger
One amazing moment
Sep 27, 2012 4 comments Opinion
Robert P Crease reveals this year's under-the-radar centenary
Between the lines
Sep 20, 2012 Review
Books about innovation, curiosity and scientific creativity, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Science in a dictatorship
Sep 20, 2012 6 comments Review
Gordon Fraser reviews The German Physical Society in the Third Reich
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
Crackpots and consequences
Sep 6, 2012 14 comments Review
Margaret Wertheim's account of "outsider physicists" and their theories, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Oscar Pistorius is helping to redefine 'disability'
Aug 30, 2012 1 comment Feature
James Dacey explores the controversial scientific debate about whether Oscar Pistorius's running blades give him an unfair advantage
Lessons learned by leading OPERA man
Aug 28, 2012 Opinion
Antonio Ereditato talks to Physics World about the superluminal-neutrino episode
Reflections on time
Aug 23, 2012 1 comment Review
Fred Swist reviews Infinite Instances, Olga Ast's science–art collaboration on the meaning of time
A Cold War puzzle persists
Aug 23, 2012 Review
Istvan Hargittai reviews Simone Turchetti's The Pontecorvo Affair
Transit watching
Aug 16, 2012 1 comment Opinion
Robert P Crease unveils a key finding from this year's transit of Venus
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
ESP and LSD on the CIA's dime
Aug 2, 2012 1 comment Review
Andrew Whitaker reviews David Kaiser's How the Hippies Saved Physics
