NASA engineer K Renee Horton raves about Hidden Figures, the film and the book, that tells the story of the African-American women who helped win the space race
Read article: On the shoulders of hidden giants
Controversy and opposition in the face of world-changing innovation has a long history and being an innovator is never plain sailing, says Wasiu O Popoola
Read article: Of old habits and new ideas
From politics to penguins: a picture review of the world of physics in 2016
Read article: Images of 2016 in physics
Tyler Nordgren’s book on the science and beauty of a total solar eclipse flows between personal experiences and scientific facts
Read article: Tracing the path towards totality
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: Dark matter is smooth, UK boosts industrial physics, Pakistan honours Abdus Salam
A new book tells the depressing but important tale of female radium-dial painters in the early 1900s who contracted radiation poisoning, writes Kate Brown
Read article: Zombie girls: a history
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: Optical clock in space, Richard Garwin wins presidential medal, lighting the cosmic web
A book on three pioneers of meteorology reveals much about their science, although little about their personalities, says David M Schultz
Read article: How weather became a science
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Flash Physics: LHC smashes luminosity record, gender bias in astronomy, calculating axion masses
Margaret Harris reviews Stalin and the Scientists: a History of Triumph and Tragedy by Simon Ings
Read article: Science under duress
