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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Celebrating Louis Essen and the birth of atomic time
Plaque unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory
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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
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Rise and fall of an electrical genius
W Bernard Carlson's biography of Nikola Tesla begins well but descends along with its subject, according to reviewer David Goodstein
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Mathematics and prejudice
Edward Frenkel's love letter to the mathematics that captivates him is "a book to read to be inspired to learn maths" writes reviewer William Gasarch
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