How not to salt popcorn, and other mad experiments
Things you definitely shouldn't try at home
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The trials of Galileo
Owen Gingerich recounts Galileo's famous court hearings of 1632
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Seeing through the ‘two cultures’
Matthew Jones on the inseparability of the arts and sciences in early 19th-century France
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A very good Englishman
Graham Farmelo examines the letters of nuclear theorist Rudolf Peierls
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Web life: Colliding Particles
Short films to get you ready for the switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider
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Secrets and spies
Jeff Hughes probes the early history of nuclear weapons
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The lure of synchrotrons
Robert P Crease asks how sound are the arguments that the next generation of synchrotron sources are an essential tool for meeting the energy challenge?
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Uranium bombs
Gerard DeGroot is underwhelmed by a new history of the nuclear age
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How to publish a scientific comment
Rick Trebino relives the time he tried – and failed – to have a comment published in a scientific journal
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Human spaceflight: science or spectacle?
The big debate: David Clements and Ian Crawford spar over whether human spaceflight is worth the effort
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