Vintage snaps from space history
UCL publishes archive of images from the history of space exploration
Laura Bassi and the city of learning
Paula Findlen examines the life of arguably the first female professional physicist
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Between the lines
A play about Newton and books about Internet spam and quantum randomness, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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The enigmatic life of J Robert Oppenheimer
Learn more about this pivotal figure in the history of modern physics from his biographer Ray Monk
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Physicist Kenneth Wilson dies at 77
Nobel laureate developed theory of phase transitions
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The new idols
Robert P Crease wonders who would today be on Francis Bacon's list of "idols" that hamper our study of nature
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Structural disputes
A biography of the mathematical biophysicist Dorothy Wrinch, reviewed by Athene Donald
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The electrical human
A book on the various roles that electricity plays in the human body, reviewed by Richard Clayton
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Why water prefers the single life
Researchers challenge idea that liquid water has two separate forms
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An iconoclast’s career
A new biography of Freeman Dyson, reviewed by Philip Anderson
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