Atmospheric tales
Robert P Crease asks why the discovery of Venus's atmosphere is still so controversial
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Einstein, the travelling physicist
Alberto A Martínez reviews Josef Eisinger's Einstein on the Road
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Neil deGrasse Tyson makes the case for space exploration
Grand visions for space "trigger a wave of innovation", says US astrophysicist
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Return to Macondo
Alastair Fraser reviews Joel Achenbach's A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: the Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher
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The cat that never dies
Robert P Crease explains the enduring fascination with Schrödinger's cat
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Portrait of our planet – readers’ pictures
A selection of images from the Physics World photo challenge
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Between the lines
Books on bubble physics, quantum exiles and arty photos of particle accelerators, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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The time of our lives
Dan Falk reviews Adam Frank's About Time: From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives
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Physics for students, not poets
Brian Clegg reviews Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill's Quantum Physics for Poets
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Geoengineering: the pitfalls and politics
US geoscientist Ken Caldeira explains why he has reservations about tinkering with the climate
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