Taming serendipity
Laura H Greene calls for a global collaboration in the search for new high-temperature superconductors
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Down the path of least resistance
A century after its discovery, Paul Michael Grant explains why superconductivity still confounds and baffles us today
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Newton’s three-body problem
Sir Isaac speaks for himself in Craig Baxter's play Let Newton Be!, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Revelations of a golden age
George Gheverghese Joseph reviews Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili
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A Nobel for communism
Alexei Kojevnikov reviews Lenin's Laureate by Paul R Josephson
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Bombendämmerung
John Mueller examines Richard Rhodes' fourth (and final?) book on nuclear bombs
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Many worlds: how Hugh Everett III changed quantum mechanics
View on demand: an online lecture presented by Peter Byrne
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The Scholar and the Caliph
On the millennial anniversary of his Book of Optics, Jennifer Ouellette tells the story of Ibn al-Haytham
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Pyramid metrologists
Robert P Crease looks at strange attempts to use the Great Pyramid of Giza as a measurement standard
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Top 10 books for 2010
Physics World unveils its choices for top physics books of the year
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