Between the lines
Books on physics history, alien life and teaching relativity to your dog, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Voyagers of discovery
John Zarnecki reviews Stephen Pyne’s Voyager: Seeking New Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery
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Between the lines
Stephen Hawking, iconoclast When Kitty Ferguson wrote her first book about Stephen Hawking in 1991, she probably did not expect to write a sequel 20 years later. The world’s most recognizable co...
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Our favourite pictures of 2011
From Batman under the microscope to dancing black holes
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Our top videos of the year
From superconductivity to classical music
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Quirks of memory
Graham Farmelo reviews Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics by John Moffat
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Copernicus’s revolutionary moment
André Goddu reviews A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
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Astronomical sense and nonsense
Margaret Harris reviews Hindsight and Popular Astronomy by Alan B Whiting
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Particle physics inspires classical composer
Major new work for violin traces the history of particle physics
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For Newton, a right Hooke
There was much more to Robert Hooke than Hooke's law, so why don't we know about it? Jon Cartwright discovers how a genius was betrayed
