Burned from the inside out
Susan Southard’s book about survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, reviewed by Brian Drummond
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Throwing the book at bad ideas
Several eminent popular-science authors have claimed that bad scientific ideas “held back” good ones. In Philip Ball’s view, such arguments deny the reality of how science is ...
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Cooking Bacon
Has Francis Bacon been unfairly vilified, asks Robert P Crease
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Berkeley astronomers question future of Geoffrey Marcy after harassment charge
Exoplanet hunter apologizes for "unwelcomed" behaviour with women
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Individual recognition
Sahal Yacoob describes how a "target culture" can cause problems when applied to academia
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Between the lines
Insights on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, science fiction from the Indian astrophysicist Jayant V Narlikar and an overview of the cosmic microwave background
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Between the lines
Books about the science of keeping things cool and a security breach at one of America’s premier nuclear-weapons facilities, plus a DVD featuring some very nerdy science comedy
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Better science policy
Robert P Crease looks at an ambitious programme to improve how science policy is formulated
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Lab lit revealed
Robert P Crease talks to the founder of a website devoted to literature about laboratories
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15 years and counting
Robert P Crease reflects on a decade and a half of the Physics World Critical Point column
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