To infinity, but not beyond
Tushna Commissariat reviews the film The Man Who Knew Infinity
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Storytelling matters
Robert P Crease considers how scientists can learn from the Passover storytelling ritual Seder
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Diversifying utopia
Robert P Crease wonders why women played no part in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
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‘Big science’ begins
A book on how Ernest Lawrence and his cyclotrons pioneered a new way of doing science, reviewed by David Wark
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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
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Peer review’s value
Robert P Crease on why trust and anonymity are so central to the success of peer review
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Babylonian astronomers used abstract geometry to track Jupiter
Geometry may have been applied to astronomy far earlier than most historians think
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Burned from the inside out
Susan Southard’s book about survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, reviewed by Brian Drummond
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The pioneers of weather forecasting
Met Office atmospheric physicist Susan Ballard finds it "stimulating" to read about some of her earliest predecessors
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The Soviet side of space
A major exhibition at the Science Museum in London brings together an impressive collection of Soviet technologies from the birth of the space age
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