Zombie girls: a history
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
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Flash Physics: Optical clock in space, Richard Garwin wins presidential medal, lighting the cosmic web
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
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How weather became a science
A book on three pioneers of meteorology reveals much about their science, although little about their personalities, says David M Schultz
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Flash Physics: LHC smashes luminosity record, gender bias in astronomy, calculating axion masses
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
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Science under duress
Margaret Harris reviews Stalin and the Scientists: a History of Triumph and Tragedy by Simon Ings
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The struggle for convergence
Are all the fields of science converging towards a unified narrative? Manjit Kumar assesses the “deepest idea in the universe”
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Inside a nuclear city
Physics World reviews the film City 40 by Samira Goetschel
Still not even wrong
Ten years after his infamous anti-string-theory book, Peter Woit thinks the subject is more tangled than ever
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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
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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
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