A critical mass of secrets
Margaret Harris reviews Trinity: the Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
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Debating the ‘quantum bottleneck’, a fictional Spanish physicist and the science of synchronized pendulums
The podcast team discusses careers for physicists, quantum hype and the best way to honour "hidden figures" in science history
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The secret of the synchronized pendulums
Huygens was first to notice that pairs of linked pendulums can swing in synchrony. But as Jonatan Pena Ramirez and Henk Nijmeijer explain, mystery still surrounds the behaviour of synch...
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The tempestuous genius of Fritz Zwicky
Andrew Robinson reviews Zwicky: the Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe by John Johnson Jr
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How Feynman diagrams transformed physics
Robert P Crease examines why Feynman diagrams have proved so useful
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A relative journey
Andrew Robinson's Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist is a superb and compelling book, writes Ian Randall
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Occult arts and sceptical sciences
Philip Ball delves into the mystic and the physical worlds, in Physics and Psychics: the Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain by Richard Noakes
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A decade of Physics World breakthroughs: 2009 – the first quantum computer
Michael Banks looks at the Physics World 2009 Breakthrough of the Year and how research in quantum computing has moved on
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My favourite Nobel prize: weighing up neutrino mass
Tushna Commissariat explains why the discovery that neutrinos have mass is crucial to our understanding of the universe
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My favourite Nobel prize: opening a new chapter in low-temperature physics
Michael Banks explains the crucial role that liquid helium plays in experimental physics
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