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
Read article: Another giant leap
A daring raid
Margaret Harris reviews The Winter Fortress: the Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb
Read article: To infinity, but not beyond
To infinity, but not beyond
Tushna Commissariat reviews the film The Man Who Knew Infinity
Read article: Storytelling matters
Storytelling matters
Robert P Crease considers how scientists can learn from the Passover storytelling ritual Seder
Read article: Diversifying utopia
Diversifying utopia
Robert P Crease wonders why women played no part in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
Read article: ‘Big science’ begins
‘Big science’ begins
A book on how Ernest Lawrence and his cyclotrons pioneered a new way of doing science, reviewed by David Wark
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
A book that fills in the gaps in your astronomy education and an illuminating biography of Max Planck, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Peer review’s value
Peer review’s value
Robert P Crease on why trust and anonymity are so central to the success of peer review
Read article: Babylonian astronomers used abstract geometry to track Jupiter
Babylonian astronomers used abstract geometry to track Jupiter
Geometry may have been applied to astronomy far earlier than most historians think
Read article: Burned from the inside out
Burned from the inside out
Susan Southard’s book about survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, reviewed by Brian Drummond
