Read article: What is Einstein’s general theory of relativity?
What is Einstein’s general theory of relativity?
Jürgen Renn explains why Einstein's great theory is so remarkable
Read article: What is Einstein’s general theory of relativity?
Read article: Revealing the hidden connection between pi and Bohr’s hydrogen model
Revealing the hidden connection between pi and Bohr’s hydrogen model
Pre-Newtonian derivation of pi found while calculating hydrogen atom's energy levels
Read article: Cooking Bacon
Cooking Bacon
Has Francis Bacon been unfairly vilified, asks Robert P Crease
Read article: Who was Emmy Noether?
Who was Emmy Noether?
Ruth Gregory introduces the life and work of this pioneering German mathematician
Read article: Looking back on the H-bomb
Looking back on the H-bomb
A memoir by the physicist Kenneth Ford offers an "engagingly human glimpse" into the US physics community in the early 1950s, writes reviewer Richard Moore
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books about the science of keeping things cool and a security breach at one of America’s premier nuclear-weapons facilities, plus a DVD featuring some very nerdy science comedy
Read article: A very brief history of relativity
A very brief history of relativity
Reviewer Cormac O'Raifeartaigh enjoys this "beautifully written" account of the genesis of Einstein's greatest theory
Re-examining the decision to bomb Hiroshima
Were there more options than to simply bomb or invade?
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books on household science, ambitious plans for living on Mars and the most important numbers in physics, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Room at the bottom
Room at the bottom
A biography of Silicon Valley's "quiet revolutionary", Gordon Moore, gets Paul Michael Grant thinking about the future of Moore's eponymous law
