Physics and painting
Robert P Crease looks at how physics has influenced several artistic movements
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Forming a critical mass of experts
A book about how the nuclear profession developed, reviewed by Geoff Vaughan
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The why and how of it all
Two books about why the universe bothers to exist, reviewed by Tim Maudlin
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Von Neumann’s computer
A book on the early history of practical computers, reviewed by Martin Campbell-Kelly
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Between the lines: Christmas special
A bumper crop of books reviewed by Margaret Harris and Tushna Commissariat
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Vital forces
A rare popular-science book on biophysics, reviewed by Richard Jones
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What made Bell Labs special?
A history of Bell Labs, reviewed by Andrew Gelman
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Soft matter’s charismatic pioneer
A biography of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, now available in English translation, reviewed by Tom McLeish
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A strange cat in Dublin
A new biography of Erwin Schrödinger, reviewed by Cormac O'Raifeartaigh
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Web life
Ask Nature: a whole website devoted to biomimicry and its many applications
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