Read article: Changing your career direction
Matin Durrani looks at how to point your career in a new direction and finds that it helps to think carefully about your options before a crisis strikes
Read article: Triumph of the small business
Matin Durrani looks at physics-based companies that have succeeded in dominating their market
Read article: Physics goes commercial
There has never been a better time for physicists to set up their own firms. We profile some of those who have gone into business and seek their advice for would-be entrepreneurs
I remember arguing long and hard with a friend at a campsite in deepest Bavaria about how many stars one can see in the night sky with the unaided human eye. The answer, according to this charming new book by James Kaler, is about 8000 – so my original estimate was about right all along […]
Columbia University string theorist Brian Greene can put his feet up this Christmas, safe in the knowledge that his popular-science title The Elegant Universe is this year’s best-selling physics book on both sides of the Atlantic, according to Amazon, the on-line bookstore. The book already scooped the Aventis Prize for Science Books earlier this year. […]
1 The Elegant Universe (Amazon, Amazon UK) Brian Greene (Vintage) pb 1999 2 A Brief History of Time (Amazon, Amazon UK) Stephen Hawking (Bantam) pb 1988 3 Just Six Numbers (Amazon, Amazon UK) Martin Rees (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) hb 1999 4 Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman! (Amazon, Amazon UK) (ed) Edward Hutchings (Vintage) pb 1985 […]
Anyone who visits the Alhambra palace in Granada will marvel at the intricate arabesque designs that decorate everything from the tiles and plasterwork to woodcarvings and the lattice-work in the windows. These designs from Islamic art are not only beautiful to look at but also rich in symmetry, involving the repetition of a fundamental motif […]
“The question of whether paranormal phenomena actually exist probably divides educated members of modern Western civilization as sharply as any other single issue. If it is true that the human brain can receive messages and control things in ways that cannot be explained normally, then this undermines the belief of most scientists and runs contrary […]
Originally inspired by the astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan, Lynda Williams began singing about her favourite subject – physics – in 1995. At the time she was a graduate physics student at San Francisco State University and realized that the best way to combine her interests in science and art was to become a […]
Read article: Solving a knotty problem
Publishers seem to have hit on a winning formula for non-fiction books in recent years. Take a seemingly esoteric subject, mix in lots of history, add plenty of anecdotes, keep it short, and print the book in a nice, compact form with expensive paper and lots of arty pictures. The best-selling Longitude by Dava Sobel […]
