Read article: Why Leonardo da Vinci was the master of disaster
Leonardo da Vinci died 500 years ago, but his work contains clues for how to think about the modern problem of global warming, finds Robert P Crease
Read article: Einstein in Oxford
Andrew Robinson reveals why Albert Einstein travelled to Britain on three occasions in the early 1930s – and how he shocked his audience in Oxford with his new thinking about how science work...
Read article: Einstein in Oxford, sustainable labs and another 5G controversy
Discussing the June issue of Physics World and the week’s news highlights
Read article: Rutherford’s legacy
John Campbell celebrates the contribution of Ernest Rutherford to our understanding of the atom
Read article: The importance of archives
Archives can play a critical role in the history of modern science, says Valerie Higgins
Read article: Illustrating 30 years of the Web
Jess Wade illustrates the history of the World Wide Web, from the technology that enabled it to the staple it is today
Read article: 150 years of the periodic table
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the periodic table of chemical elements
Read article: An unelementary affair: 150 years of the periodic table
Robert P Crease traces the history of the periodic table, 150 years after Dmitri Mendeleev drew the first version
Read article: Why solid-state physics is like a Star Wars plot
Can the growth of solid-state physics be likened to a Star Wars plot? Robert P Crease agrees that it can
Read article: Newton: egomaniac or troubled genius?
Andrew Robinson reviews Isaac Newton: the Asshole Who Reinvented the Universe by Florian Freistetter
