Read article: The struggle for convergence
The struggle for convergence
Are all the fields of science converging towards a unified narrative? Manjit Kumar assesses the “deepest idea in the universe”
Read article: The struggle for convergence
Inside a nuclear city
Physics World reviews the film City 40 by Samira Goetschel
Read article: Still not even wrong
Still not even wrong
Ten years after his infamous anti-string-theory book, Peter Woit thinks the subject is more tangled than ever
Read article: Adventures in search of auroras
Adventures in search of auroras
This fascinating account of the Northern Lights taught reviewer (and space plasma physicist) Colin Forsyth a thing or two about aurora science
Read article: Flash Physics: Dyson award for ‘Einstein’s fridge’, Australian Centres of Excellence, mapping our galaxy’s age
Flash Physics: Dyson award for ‘Einstein’s fridge’, Australian Centres of Excellence, mapping our galaxy’s age
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Don’t stop them now
Margaret Harris reviews Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
Read article: In harm’s way
In harm’s way
Margaret Harris reviews Eruption by Steve Olson
Read article: The monk and the multiverse
The monk and the multiverse
A journey into the remarkable mind of the 13th-century monk, scholar and proto-cosmologist Robert Grosseteste
Read article: Fang Lizhi, physicist and dissident
Fang Lizhi, physicist and dissident
A newly translated memoir has Richard McCray reflecting on the legacy of a renowned Chinese astrophysicist
Read article: Another giant leap
Another giant leap
The story of a group of women who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early days of rocketry draws both praise and criticism from Lisa Ruth Rand
