A message from Mercury
With NASA's MESSENGER probe set to enter Mercury's orbit, Louise Prockter outlines the mission's grand aims
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The Scholar and the Caliph
On the millennial anniversary of his Book of Optics, Jennifer Ouellette tells the story of Ibn al-Haytham
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Not slippery when wet
Jan-Henning Dirks on the mystery of how flies can crawl upside down
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Avoiding an unholy marriage
Michael Banks looks at how maths and music underpin a new homage to Ernest Rutherford
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Gongs away
Bagging a physics prize can bring both pleasures and pitfalls
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Living with a star
Alan Title reveals how NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is telling us about the Sun
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Nuclear’s new generation
Novel nuclear reactors promise much, but hurdles remain before any are ever built, explains Edwin Cartlidge
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Hot fusion
Steve Cowley outlines the next challenges in fusion power
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Hubble’s greatest hits
Relive all the best images and results from the Hubble telescope in the company of Mark Voit
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Quantum computing…with a twist
Steve Simon explains why the theory of knots could play a role in quantum information processing
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