‘Knowledge engine’ hits the Web
Wolfram Alpha helps you stop electrons, but comes up short on quantum physics
Read article: Doing science in the open
Doing science in the open
Online networking tools are pervasive, but why have scientists been so slow to adopt many of them? Michael Nielsen explains how we can build a better culture of online collaboration
Read article: Making physics popular
Making physics popular
Writing about physics for the public involves more than just translating complex scientific ideas into simple language, says Robert P Crease
Read article: Web life: The Evil Mad Scientist Project
Web life: The Evil Mad Scientist Project
How to electrocute a hot dog...and more
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Letters becomes Feedback and now includes comments made to our online stories
arXiv thrives
The electronic dust may have only been settling on arXiv for 17 years or so, but the world's favourite e-print server has already amassed half a million papers...
Read article: The global-village pioneers
The global-village pioneers
Paul Ginsparg, who founded the arXiv e-print archive, recounts the early days of the Web and looks at how it has changed scientific communication
Read article: Blog life: Michael Nielsen
Blog life: Michael Nielsen
Michael Nielsen looks at science publishing
Social networking for physicists
A great deal of discussion was devoted to building social networking sites for professionals -- and we were treated to several success stories...
Should we scrap science news?
Here's a statistic for you, taken from a website called Sense About Science...
