Read article: Why was so much spent on quantum computers before they even existed?
Robert P Crease finds out why companies, firms and governments invested in quantum computers before the technology existed
Read article: Cold: how physicists learned to manipulate and move particles with laser cooling
The early history of laser cooling is a tale of three Nobel prizes and plenty of hard work, as Chad Orzel reveals
Read article: Sects, drugs and drunken duels: lighter moments from the history of science
Kate Gardner reviews The Limits of Genius: the Surprising Stupidity of the World’s Greatest Minds by Katie Spalding
Read article: Freeman Dyson: we explore the extraordinary life of the rebel physicist
This podcast features David Kaiser, who has edited a new book on Freeman Dyson
Read article: Uncovering the hidden history of codebreaker Emily Anderson
Kate Gardner reviews Queen of Codes: the Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain’s Greatest Female Codebreaker by Jackie Uí Chionna
Read article: Exploring the nuclear world: the life and science of Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber
Sidney Perkowitz delves into the life of the trailblazing nuclear physicist, who overcame significant odds to pursue her work
Read article: The demise of an electronics giant: the men who killed General Electric
Anita Chandran reviews Power Failure: the Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D Cohan
Read article: Leo Szilard: the physicist who envisaged nuclear weapons but later opposed their use
Istvan Hargittai explains why Leo Szilard’s petition for atomic bombs to be stopped was not the only time his views changed
Read article: Einstein as you’ve never seen him before
Andrew Robinson reviews Einstein: the Man and His Mind by Gary S Berger and Michael DiRuggiero
Read article: Mentor and student: how Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant changed nuclear physics
Margaret Harris reviews The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb by Andrew Ramsey
