When Bose wrote to Einstein: the power of diverse thinking
Robert P Crease and Gino Elia celebrate the centenary of the prediction of Bose–Einstein condensation
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Size matters: the economies of scale, from the very big to the very small
Tom Tierney reviews Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
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Albert Einstein: the living, breathing human being
Kate Gardner reviews Einstein in Time and Space: a Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
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Pioneering the physics of adaptation, writing the history of quantum computing
This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features two pioneers in their fields
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Beyond a ‘man’s world’: patriarchs, matriarchs and the quest for gender equality
Isabel Rabey reviews The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
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How sound is the model used to establish safe radiation levels?
Robert P Crease says that if we want to ditch fossil fuels, we must reassess the validity of the “linear no-threshold” model of radiation
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Beyond the bomb: the life and times of J Robert Oppenheimer
Andrew Glester reviews the film Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan
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Why was so much spent on quantum computers before they even existed?
Robert P Crease finds out why companies, firms and governments invested in quantum computers before the technology existed
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Cold: how physicists learned to manipulate and move particles with laser cooling
The early history of laser cooling is a tale of three Nobel prizes and plenty of hard work, as Chad Orzel reveals
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Sects, drugs and drunken duels: lighter moments from the history of science
Kate Gardner reviews The Limits of Genius: the Surprising Stupidity of the World’s Greatest Minds by Katie Spalding
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