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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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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Uranium bombs
Gerard DeGroot is underwhelmed by a new history of the nuclear age
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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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Sustainability made simple
Niall MacKay and Roger Edgar assess what the UK government's new climate adviser has to say on energy
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Profiles of genius and persecution
Dan Falk asks if anything unites the many Jewish successful physicists of the 20th century
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Publicize or perish
Joseph Romm urges scientists to do much more to warn the public of the dangers of climate change
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Challenges in tackling climate change
In order to limit global warming by reducing carbon emissions, Lord Browne argues that the biggest barriers to a low-carbon economy in the UK are not scientific or technological but...
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Web life: Clim’City
Try the game that lets you stave off climate change
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Illuminating physics for students
David Griffiths says that the role of a physics teacher should be to illuminate the subject's intrinsic interest, beauty and power – and warns that attempts to make i...
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