The power of silence
Felicity Mellor explains why today's physicists need time and space to think
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Between the lines
Books that explore Einstein’s quantum mechanics work and the true meaning of reductionism reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Lateral Thoughts: Voices from history
Physics World's humour column has a serious side, too
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Plutonium’s toxic legacy
Exploring the hidden histories of the American and Soviet "atomic cities" with Kate Brown, author of Plutopia
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Plutopia forever
Alexei Kojevnikov reviews a book about the toxic legacy and complex history of the American and Soviet plutonium programmes
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From Euclid to Einstein
Practising scientists may welcome a new "guided translation" of Newton's Principia despite some significant flaws, says Patricia Fara
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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
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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
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The spot in the shadow
Robert P Crease shows just how hard it can be to assign credit for a scientific discovery
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The lure of G
Jon Cartwright finds out why physicists are still scratching their heads over the value of the gravitational constant, "big G"
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