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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The physics of sport – readers’ pictures
A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge
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Between the lines
A graphic novel about the first atomic bomb and a biography of the anti-nuclear campaigner Joseph Rotblat, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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The science of Prometheus
A collection of essays by the cosmopolitan chemist Roald Hoffmann, reviewed by Seymour Mauskopf
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Hans Bethe’s early life
Jeremy Bernstein reviews Nuclear Forces: the Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe
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How to vote
Robert P Crease reveals his tactic for determining the scientific qualifications of political candidates
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