All alone in the universe?
Jack Lissauer reviews Lee Billings' Five Billion Years of Solitude, a collection of stories about exoplanet science
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Did slippery sand help Egyptians build the pyramids?
A little bit of water cuts friction in half
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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
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How Charles Wheatstone got to see polarization
Restored machine built by Sir Charles Wheatstone reveals the principles of polarized light
Edible lasers and death rays
Jeff Hecht reviews an "old-fashioned cabinet of wonders" from the field of optics and photonics
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Hunting for neutrinos
Neutrino science gets a turn in the popular-physics limelight as Brian Clegg reviews an accessible new account of the field's history
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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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