Publishing Opinion and reviews Web life: Trailblazing Trailblazing – enjoy the best papers from 350 years of the Royal Society Read article: Web life: Trailblazing
History Opinion and reviews The giant and the thief Thomas Levenson describes Newton's battle with arch-counterfeiter William Chaloner Read article: The giant and the thief
Stars and solar physics Opinion and reviews The trials of Galileo Owen Gingerich recounts Galileo's famous court hearings of 1632 Read article: The trials of Galileo
Metrology Opinion and reviews Seeing through the ‘two cultures’ Matthew Jones on the inseparability of the arts and sciences in early 19th-century France Read article: Seeing through the ‘two cultures’
Superconductivity News Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009 Eminent Nobel-prize-winning Russian theorist dies on 8 November aged 93 Read article: Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Superconductivity Interview Vitaly Ginzburg: a life in physics Vitaly Ginzburg – one of the most prominent Russian theoretical physicists of the 20th century – talks exclusively about his achievements in physics, his distrust of the church... Read article: Vitaly Ginzburg: a life in physics
Philosophy, sociology and religion Opinion and reviews Uranium bombs Gerard DeGroot is underwhelmed by a new history of the nuclear age Read article: Uranium bombs
Philosophy, sociology and religion Opinion and reviews A very good Englishman Graham Farmelo examines the letters of nuclear theorist Rudolf Peierls Read article: A very good Englishman
Philosophy, sociology and religion Opinion and reviews Secrets and spies Jeff Hughes probes the early history of nuclear weapons Read article: Secrets and spies
Policy and funding News Developing-world research hub unveils new director Costa Rica-born physicist to head the International Centre for Theoretical Physics Read article: Developing-world research hub unveils new director