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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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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