Curing the Curie complex
French physicist Hélène Langevin-Joliot – the granddaughter of Marie Curie – discusses the "Curie complex" and shares her tips for scientific success
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Tinker, tailor, physicist, spy?
Was Bruno Pontecorvo a Soviet spy, or just a naive nuclear physicist caught up in a bigger drama? Simone Turchetti weighs up the evidence in Frank Close's new book
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The spin of a proton
Where does the spin of a proton come from? An answer to this deceptively simple question may finally be within reach, as Edwin Cartlidge reports
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Web life: Restricted Data: the Nuclear Secrecy Blog
Digging up the dirt on the early nuclear age
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Cyclotron radiation from a single electron is measured for the first time
Technique could help measure neutrino mass
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Smaller fusion reactors could deliver big gains
Tokamak Energy says that "fusion power gain" does not depend on the size of the reactor
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Particle pioneer Val Fitch dies at 91
US physicist discovered fundamental symmetry violation in the decay of K-mesons
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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
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Dark matter could light up giant mirror
Low-cost detector is designed to glimpse 'hidden photons'
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New approach to fusion delivers copious neutrons
Magnetic fields and laser drive reaction
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