A look on the bright side
Roger Bridgman on a new book exploring the impact of the electric light
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Au revoir, kilogram
Robert P Crease witnesses one of the last inspections of the official SI kilogram standard
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Roy Glauber – from the Bronx to the Nobel
On winning his Nobel, his time on the Manhattan Project and working alongside other physics greats
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Tests begin on the body of Tycho Brahe
Exhumed corpse of the founder of modern observational astronomy back in Danish lab
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Between the lines
On the physics of music, the dwarf planet Pluto and the history of noble gases
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Finding the secrets of life
Michael P H Stumpf recalls the life of DNA pioneer Francis Crick
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When worlds collide: physics meets music
Particle physicist Brian Foster and musician Jack Liebeck play a violin sonata by Mozart in C Major k.296
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Missed metric moment
Robert P Crease bemoans the US's failure to capitalize on an early opportunity to go metric
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You’re so predictable
Despite the spontaneity we think that we exhibit, our behaviour is far more predictable than we may admit, as Albert-László Barabási explains
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Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted
Lucy Calder and Ofer Lahav shed light on the background to the discovery of dark energy
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