Matin Durrani looks at the work of Abdus Salam, who was born a century ago this year
Read article: Abdus Salam: Pakistan’s first (and so far only) physics Nobel prize-winner
It would have been the earliest example of space weather impacting human technology, but an international team of researchers found a slight problem
Read article: Did space weather delay a train in 1841?
Margaret Harris reviews Trinity: an Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test
Read article: Illuminating, beautiful and disturbing: a photographic record of the Trinity atomic test
Iulia Georgescu looks at the curious history of the journal Physics
Read article: John Bell and the most obscure journal in physics
The Col du Clapier route would have been the more energetically favourable
Read article: Study reveals the energy cost of Hannibal’s Alpine crossing
Robert P Crease reports from a conference at CERN on particle physics in the 1980s and 1990s
Read article: The future of particle physics: what can the past teach us?
Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal why Chien-Shiung Wu never won a Nobel prize
Read article: Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics
Robert P Crease reveals the curious twist in the development of Chinese physics in the 1960s
Read article: The obscure physics theory that helped Chinese science emerge from the shadows
Iulia Georgescu highlights the forgotten pioneers of computational physics and calls for a wider appreciation of research software engineers
Read article: The forgotten pioneers of computational physics
Kate Gardner reviews If I Am Right, and I Know I Am: Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret by Hanne Strager
Read article: Inge Lehmann: the ground-breaking seismologist who faced a rocky road to success
