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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International Year of Light draws to a close
Successful year marked by thousands of events held in more than 100 countries worldwide
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Preserving Apollo’s data legacy
Dealing with handwritten notes and photo negatives
Quest to understand ‘nothing’ wins Physics World’s 2015 Book of the Year
Amanda Gefter's Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn takes top honour
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Throwing the book at bad ideas
Several eminent popular-science authors have claimed that bad scientific ideas “held back” good ones. In Philip Ball’s view, such arguments deny the reality of how science is ...
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