Read article: Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted
Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted
Lucy Calder and Ofer Lahav shed light on the background to the discovery of dark energy
Read article: Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted
Read article: And then there was light
And then there was light
Pauline Rigby describes how a then little-known scientist became the first person to design and build a working laser
Read article: The first 50 years of the laser – and the next 50
The first 50 years of the laser – and the next 50
The laser at 50: physicists will have a defining role to play in the next 50 years of the laser, says Tom Baer
Read article: Science in the Muslim world
Science in the Muslim world
Jim Al-Khalili examines the prospects for an Islamic scientific renaissance
Read article: The Majorana mystery
The Majorana mystery
Salvatore Esposito examines the life of troubled Italian genius Ettore Majorana
Read article: Web life: Trailblazing
Web life: Trailblazing
Trailblazing – enjoy the best papers from 350 years of the Royal Society
Read article: The giant and the thief
The giant and the thief
Thomas Levenson describes Newton's battle with arch-counterfeiter William Chaloner
Read article: The trials of Galileo
The trials of Galileo
Owen Gingerich recounts Galileo's famous court hearings of 1632
Read article: Seeing through the ‘two cultures’
Seeing through the ‘two cultures’
Matthew Jones on the inseparability of the arts and sciences in early 19th-century France
Read article: Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Eminent Nobel-prize-winning Russian theorist dies on 8 November aged 93
