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Meet the kaleidoholics

Robert P Crease stumbles into the incredible world of a "philosophical toy" that’s 200 years old

Photo of the image inside a standard kaleidoscope

India-based Neutrino Observatory faces a new hurdle

Physicists in court over concerns about groundwater and biodiversity

Photograph of physicists surveying the mountain in Tamil Nadu that has been selected as the site for the India-based Neutrino Observatory

UK unveils national strategy for stimulating growth in quantum technologies

Training PhDs and building 'demonstrators' of commercial products are high on the agenda

Photograph of the UK universities, science and cities minister, Greg Clark (left), and Kai Bongs of the University of Birmingham, with quantum-optical equipment

A single light of science

An introduction to the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015)

A man, a plan, a bomb

The life of J Robert Oppenheimer makes for stunning drama in this Royal Shakespeare Company production, writes Margaret Harris

Cast members in the play Oppenheimer lie prone on stage wearing dark glasses as they await the first atomic bomb explosion

Shutdowns and start-ups

Robert P Crease on the meaning of ceremonies we hold for labs that are closing down

Photo of the last day of operations at the US National Synchrotron Light Source

Nature’s unknown unknowns

Seismologist Seth Stein is pleasantly surprised to find an introductory book on geophysical hazards that doesn't oversimplify this complex topic

Dialling up the cosmos

Edwin Cartlidge reports on the new apps that allow smartphone users to detect cosmic rays

Artistic impressionof cascades of particles emanating from a distant light source in the night sky

To infinity, beyond and back again

Space-travel film Interstellar awes our reviewer Tushna Commissariat with an epic plot and breath-taking effects, but what about the science?

Still photo from the film Interstellar showing a spacecraft hurtling through space

Literature of the lab

Robert P Crease wants your picks for the best fiction books set in physics labs

Film still from the movie version of Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons

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