Read article: You’re so predictable
You’re so predictable
Despite the spontaneity we think that we exhibit, our behaviour is far more predictable than we may admit, as Albert-László Barabási explains
Read article: You’re so predictable
Read article: Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted
Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted
Lucy Calder and Ofer Lahav shed light on the background to the discovery of dark energy
Read article: And then there was light
And then there was light
Pauline Rigby describes how a then little-known scientist became the first person to design and build a working laser
Read article: From ray-gun to Blu-ray
From ray-gun to Blu-ray
Fifty years after their invention, Sidney Perkowitz examines the huge impact of lasers on science, culture and everyday life
Read article: Where next for the laser?
Where next for the laser?
Six laser experts recall how the laser has advanced their fields of interest – and speculate where it will take these areas next
Read article: Fusion’s bright new dawn
Fusion’s bright new dawn
The world's largest laser could transform the search for abundant, carbon-free electricity, as Mike Dunne explains
Read article: Science in the Muslim world
Science in the Muslim world
Jim Al-Khalili examines the prospects for an Islamic scientific renaissance
Read article: The eerie silence
The eerie silence
Paul Davies calls for the search for extraterrestrials to be relaunched
Read article: The flu fighters
The flu fighters
Tools from physics can now be used to model the H1N1 flu pandemic, as Vittoria Colizza and Alessandro Vespignani explain
Read article: Law and the end of the world
Law and the end of the world
Edwin Cartlidge examines the case of a US lawyer who believes that the courts must step in if required to halt experiments like the Large Hadron Collider
