Read article: Letting the sunshine in
Letting the sunshine in
A book about “sustainable” strategies for providing food and energy to a future population of nine billion, reviewed by Alison Walker
Read article: Letting the sunshine in
Read article: Politics or physics?
Politics or physics?
Gerard DeGroot reviews Churchill’s Bomb, Graham Farmelo’s new book on Winston Churchill and the atomic bomb project
Read article: Deciding with science
Deciding with science
Robert P Crease wonders why scientific input to important policy issues is so often ignored when it's actually critical
Read article: Why is fundamental science important?
Why is fundamental science important?
John Dainton on why academic freedom benefits society
Read article: What is time?
What is time?
Adam Frank explains why the nature of time is such an enduring – and important – problem
Read article: Is life on Earth unique?
Is life on Earth unique?
Ray Jayawardhana explores the possibility of life on other worlds
Read article: Dramatizing science
Dramatizing science
Robert P Crease finds that writing a play about science – even a short one – is harder than it seems
Read article: Laura Bassi and the city of learning
Laura Bassi and the city of learning
Paula Findlen examines the life of arguably the first female professional physicist
Read article: Too hot to handle
Too hot to handle
A book about the complex history of nuclear waste in the US, reviewed by Robert Hayes
Read article: Physicists get to grips with complex systems
Physicists get to grips with complex systems
Results show that putting too much effort into controlling such systems may actually make them uncontrollable
