Was Bruno Pontecorvo a Soviet spy, or just a naive nuclear physicist caught up in a bigger drama? Simone Turchetti weighs up the evidence in Frank Close's new book
Read article: Tinker, tailor, physicist, spy?
Robert P Crease reflects on a decade and a half of the Physics World Critical Point column
Read article: 15 years and counting
A fresh take on Erwin Schrödinger's later years in Ireland, reviewed by Denis Weaire
Read article: Albert and Erwin: decline and fall
Robert P Crease examines why Goethe so savagely attacked Newton's views on optics
Read article: Fight over light
Searches for supersymmetry and dark matter will mark out the CERN collider's second run
Read article: Large Hadron Collider fires up in a bid to shake up the Standard Model
A look back at some of the trailblazing women of physics
Tasneem Zehra Husain’s imaginative physics-history novel Only the Longest Threads and Peter Adey’s ramble through Air: Nature and Culture, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Between the lines
How do you capture the information revolution in a museum exhibit? Andrew Robinson reviews a book with plenty to say about this challenge
Read article: Ringing changes on vital information
James Watt and the interplay between "thinking" and "doing" in the Industrial Revolution makes for a meaty subject, writes Basil Mahon
Read article: Craft, science, early industry
US physicist discovered fundamental symmetry violation in the decay of K-mesons
Read article: Particle pioneer Val Fitch dies at 91
