Read article: Cooking up a storm
Cooking up a storm
Peter Barham reviews Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet
Read article: Cooking up a storm
Read article: Astronomical sense and nonsense
Astronomical sense and nonsense
Margaret Harris reviews Hindsight and Popular Astronomy by Alan B Whiting
Read article: Uplifting thoughts
Uplifting thoughts
Ted Forgan reviews Rising Force: the Magic of Magnetic Levitation by James Livingston
Read article: The brave new-media world
The brave new-media world
Chad Orzel says physicists have to get used to doing science in the open
For Newton, a right Hooke
There was much more to Robert Hooke than Hooke's law, so why don't we know about it? Jon Cartwright discovers how a genius was betrayed
Read article: Mikhail Lomonosov: the greatest scientist you’ve never heard of
Mikhail Lomonosov: the greatest scientist you’ve never heard of
Robert P Crease marks the tercentenary of Russia's scientific father
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books on fundamental constants and the "science of wonder", plus a comic-book guide to the universe, reviewed by Matin Durrani and Margaret Harris
Read article: One toise at a time
One toise at a time
Terry Quinn reviews Measure of the Earth: the Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World by Larrie D Ferreiro
Read article: Opportunities lost
Opportunities lost
Paul Mueller reviews The Abacus and the Cross: the Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown
Read article: How big is your footprint?
How big is your footprint?
Phil Marshall says the onus is on physicists to reduce their own carbon footprint
