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