Our favourite pictures of 2013
From shape-shifting metals and evolving bubbles to ancient light
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Multimedia highlights of 2013
From a Nobel laureate in Bristol to a giant synchrotron in the Alps
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Wrong turns and dead ends
Len Fisher reviews a book about the mistakes made by great scientists throughout history, including Darwin, Kelvin and Einstein
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A romantic scientist
A "magnificent and superior" biography of the 19th-century Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted, reviewed by Anja Skaar Jacobsen
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Between the lines: Christmas special
Books about the mathematics in The Simpsons, vanishing starry nights, medical physics, big questions and some very weird life forms
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Making sense of Oppenheimer
Ray Monk’s landmark biography of “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, reviewed by Robert P Crease
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Politics or physics?
Gerard DeGroot reviews Churchill’s Bomb, Graham Farmelo’s new book on Winston Churchill and the atomic bomb project
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Uncertainty reigns over Heisenberg’s measurement analogy
Physicists ponder quantum pioneer's original intention
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Between the lines
Physics World reviews A Short, Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt and Rocket Girl by George Morgan
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Vintage snaps from space history
UCL publishes archive of images from the history of space exploration
