Journalists speak out
It’s not often that journalists are the ones being quoted. And going by the attendance of this afternoon’s symposium, Global warming heats up: how the media covers climate change, a lot of people ...
Antinuclear call to arms
In fear of a nuclear arms race
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Fraud alert
Physicists must be wary of fraud
The might of military research
The secret world of defence science
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A very strange year
2002 was full of highs and lows
In the matter of J Hendrik Schön
What lessons can we learn from the misconduct at Bell Labs?
Reputations at risk
Recent scandals in physics research have not improved its image
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Bell Labs in the spotlight
Heavyweight panel probes allegations of data fabrication
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Standard setting in radiation protection
A more detailed review by William Mills of the International Radiation Protection Association and past president of the US Health Physics Society appears in the March issue of Physics World. In Permis...
The social conscience of scientists
Joseph Rotblat says scientists need to accept responsibility for the human and environmental consequences of their research,.
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