Lateral Thoughts: Voices from history
Physics World's humour column has a serious side, too
Read article: Plutonium’s toxic legacy
Plutonium’s toxic legacy
Exploring the hidden histories of the American and Soviet "atomic cities" with Kate Brown, author of Plutopia
Read article: Plutopia forever
Plutopia forever
Alexei Kojevnikov reviews a book about the toxic legacy and complex history of the American and Soviet plutonium programmes
Read article: From Euclid to Einstein
From Euclid to Einstein
Practising scientists may welcome a new "guided translation" of Newton's Principia despite some significant flaws, says Patricia Fara
Read article: Web life: Voices of the Manhattan Project
Web life: Voices of the Manhattan Project
An archive of audio and video interviews with people who participated in the atomic bomb project during the Second World War
Read article: Alices in a nuclear Wonderland
Alices in a nuclear Wonderland
Historian Kate Brown reviews the fascinating but incomplete story of women who worked at the Oak Ridge uranium-processing plant during the Second World War
Read article: The spot in the shadow
The spot in the shadow
Robert P Crease shows just how hard it can be to assign credit for a scientific discovery
Read article: The lure of G
The lure of G
Jon Cartwright finds out why physicists are still scratching their heads over the value of the gravitational constant, "big G"
Celebrating Louis Essen and the birth of atomic time
Plaque unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books about the physics community in Nazi Germany, the roots of radio astronomy and a whole lot of nothing, reviewed by Margaret Harris
