Read article: Web life: Phun
So what is the site about? Phun is a free, downloadable physics-simulation programme that bills itself as a “2D physics sandbox”. The programme’s limitless virtual space allows users...
Read article: Mathematical typesetting gets XML makeover
Siân Harris talks to Barry MacKichan the founder of MacKichan Software about why the company is bringing XML-based processing to its traditional LaTeX-based soft...
Wolfram Alpha helps you stop electrons, but comes up short on quantum physics
Read article: 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: Web life: The Evil Mad Scientist Project
How to electrocute a hot dog...and more
Read article: Making physics popular
Writing about physics for the public involves more than just translating complex scientific ideas into simple language, says Robert P Crease
Letters becomes Feedback and now includes comments made to our online stories
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
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
Michael Nielsen looks at science publishing
