Letting the sunshine in
A book about “sustainable” strategies for providing food and energy to a future population of nine billion, reviewed by Alison Walker
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Web life: Empirical Zeal
A blog about physics and evolutionary biology that packs a quantitative punch
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Politics or physics?
Gerard DeGroot reviews Churchill’s Bomb, Graham Farmelo’s new book on Winston Churchill and the atomic bomb project
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Deciding with science
Robert P Crease wonders why scientific input to important policy issues is so often ignored when it's actually critical
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Between the lines
Physics World reviews A Short, Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt and Rocket Girl by George Morgan
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Raising funds to support physics
Peter Knight calls for your help to expand the work of the Institute of Physics
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Dramatizing science
Robert P Crease finds that writing a play about science – even a short one – is harder than it seems
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The seven chemical wonders
Matin Durrani ponders a former BP chairman’s choices of “seven elements that have changed the world”
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Web life: 94 Elements
A documentary film project about the chemical elements and how people interact with them
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To the world’s end, in 15 questions
A book full of questions about cosmology, reviewed by Virginia Trimble
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