The University of Liverpool’s synchrocyclotron helped define physics in the 20th century, yet little trace of it remains. Rob Lea looks into the history of this lost machine
Read article: The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron
Sidney Perkowitz on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, from her stellar astronomical findings to her struggle with bias against women in the early 20th century
Read article: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars
Michael Riordan reveals how physicists and programmers played important roles in shaping the current wave of globalization
Read article: Going global: the world the Web has wrought
Laura Hiscott reviews Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate by Paul Halpern
Read article: Two scientists’ debate over whether the universe had a beginning – and how the elements were created
Andrew Robinson reviews The Man from the Future: the Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
Read article: Brilliant polymath, troubled person: how John von Neumann shaped our world
Margaret Harris examines the circumstances that shaped the career of 1993 physics Nobel laureate Russell Hulse
Read article: Life beyond the Nobel: Russell Hulse’s path from binary pulsar discoverer to plasma physicist
Margaret Harris reviews Restricted Data: the History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States by Alex Wellerstein
Read article: How nuclear information has been hidden – and brought to light
Laura Hiscott reviews Sir James Jeans: Scientist, Philosopher and Musician by Christopher Jeans and Alexandr Kozenko
Read article: The great upheaval in physics – through the eyes of a scientist who was there
David Appell reviews Lightspeed: the Ghostly Aether and the Race to Measure the Speed of Light by John Spence
Read article: Measuring up: how our search for the speed of light led to our current understanding of physics
David Appell highlights theoretical physics predictions that have rocked our understanding of how the world works
Read article: The 10 greatest predictions in physics
