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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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
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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
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Science in the Muslim world
Jim Al-Khalili examines the prospects for an Islamic scientific renaissance
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The Majorana mystery
Salvatore Esposito examines the life of troubled Italian genius Ettore Majorana
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