Read article: Web life: Foldit
Web life: Foldit
How protein folding can be fun
Read article: Web life: Foldit
Read article: Between chance and necessity
Between chance and necessity
Andrew Steane reviews Stuart Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred
Read article: Web life: Phun
Web life: Phun
So what is the site about? Phun is a free, downloadable physics-simulation programme that bills itself as a “2D physics sandbox”. The programme’s limitless virtual space allows users...
Read article: The power of robotics
The power of robotics
Robotics competitions supply a vital missing link in science and engineering education, says Robert P Crease
Read article: Is there really no place like home?
Is there really no place like home?
From zero to 350 in less than 14 years — this is the impressive track record of astronomers searching for planets orbiting other suns. In 1995 when two Swiss astronomers discovered that the star...
Read article: ‘Two cultures’ turns 50
‘Two cultures’ turns 50
Robert P Crease asks why the idea of the “two cultures”, coined by C P Snow 50 years ago, still feels so current — despite the book that promoted the idea being both d...
Read article: More than wishful thinking
More than wishful thinking
The great vision of fusion power — harnessing the energy source of the stars for the good of people on Earth — is and has always been a highly attractive one. The history of fusion researc...
Read article: Web life: Hyperphysics
Web life: Hyperphysics
So what is the site about? Hyperphysics is a network of cross-linked articles on topics from acceleration to the Zeeman effect — essentially an online physics encyclopedia. Unlike some sites fea...
Read article: Making physics popular
Making physics popular
Writing about physics for the public involves more than just translating complex scientific ideas into simple language, says Robert P Crease
Read article: Beautifully strange
Beautifully strange
John Enderby describes the life of the "strangest man": Paul Dirac
