Ten years after
The first news story in that first issue was a sneak preview of the Edwards’ report on the future of physics departments in UK universities, which concluded that 20 staff and 200 full-time-equiv...
Physics top ten
Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking The author explores the outer reaches of our knowledge of astrophysics and the nature of time and the universe, and reviews ...
In brief: Yuri Gagarin and Gregory Benford
Starman: Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Piers Bizony and Jamie Doran Bloomsbury p256 £12.59 On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to leave the Earth’s...
Science strikes on-line deal with China
The deal was hatched in discussions between Ellis Rubinstein, editor of Science , and Zhou Guangzhao, president of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology. A group of Chinese funding agenci...
Small in size, high on impact
Secrets of success One of the reasons for this high impact is that Scandinavian physicists specialize in niche areas. According to Ole Hansen, director of the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of...
Changes to PhysicsWeb
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New features on PhysicsWeb
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Researching the Web
On page 98 of the April 3 issue of Science Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, report that no search engine covers more that one third of the 320 milli...
Einstein’s papers
This volume, sixth in an ongoing series of works by Princeton University Press, contains some of Albert Einstein’s more important papers on quantum theory and general relativity. Early versions ...
How to deal with mistakes
Luckily the literature is not like a barrel of apples and one bad paper will not ruin all of the others. There are also different types of mistakes with different consequences. Deliberate mistakes are...
