Read article: Good scientists and honest people
Good scientists and honest people
A biography of one of the Manhattan Project's less-heralded physicists, reviewed by Andrew Robinson
Read article: Good scientists and honest people
Read article: From the past, a fiery warning
From the past, a fiery warning
A book about the 1783 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki and the lessons it holds for us today, reviewed by Hazel Rymer
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
A dual biography of Faraday and Maxwell, an insider’s tale of the Higgs hunt and a flawed study of the physics of warfare, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Keeping a telescopic eye on the Soviets
Keeping a telescopic eye on the Soviets
How Jodrell Bank Observatory became entangled in the Space Race
Read article: The problem of missile defence
The problem of missile defence
Rebecca Slayton's book Arguments That Count has implications that stretch far beyond Cold War history, according to reviewer Philip Webber
Read article: All alone in the universe?
All alone in the universe?
Jack Lissauer reviews Lee Billings' Five Billion Years of Solitude, a collection of stories about exoplanet science
Read article: Did slippery sand help Egyptians build the pyramids?
Did slippery sand help Egyptians build the pyramids?
A little bit of water cuts friction in half
Read article: The drop heard round the world
The drop heard round the world
Shane D Bergin, Stefan Hutzler and Denis Weaire describe how a funnel full of pitch became a media sensation
How Charles Wheatstone got to see polarization
Restored machine built by Sir Charles Wheatstone reveals the principles of polarized light
Read article: Edible lasers and death rays
Edible lasers and death rays
Jeff Hecht reviews an "old-fashioned cabinet of wonders" from the field of optics and photonics
