To celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table, Hamish Johnston explains how iron improved the humble plough and allowed the Burj Khalifa to touch the sky
Read article: Battle of the elements: iron gave us skyscrapers and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
In a new series to celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table, Liz Kalaugher highlights the role that nitrogen plays in life, science … and explosives
Read article: Battle of the elements: nitrogen gives life and takes it away
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Read article: Hawking joke inspires coin collector, Chaos the lion has radiotherapy, how to coil a liquid jet
Physics and Dance explores the evolution of dance, past and present, within a context of ideas that have developed in physics, says Anna Demming
Read article: Coupled practices
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Read article: Apollo 11 user’s manual for sale, the physics of parking your car
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Read article: Physics of rowing, LEGO black-hole telescopes, happy birthday Max Planck
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Read article: Simulating life on Mars in China, the physics of the latest Stars Wars film
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Read article: Excitement grows about the Event Horizon Telescope, physics of bent rulers, could you be the next director general of CERN?
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Read article: Rare rainbow arcs in the sky, seven technological wonders of the 21st century
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Read article: Collecting the materials that give art colour, entangled in the space between art and physics
