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Education and outreach Opinion and reviews Breaking through Those outside the mainstream can find it hard to make worthwhile scientific contributions Read article: Breaking through
Personalities Opinion and reviews A passion for boats Robert P Crease discusses the enduring appeal of sailboats for retired mathematician Frank Sinden Read article: A passion for boats
Education and outreach Opinion and reviews Spot the physicist Differentiating between expertise and knowledge can be tricky, as Richard Jones finds out Read article: Spot the physicist
Policy and funding Opinion and reviews Hard up The UK's science-funding crisis could not have come at a worse time for the physics community Read article: Hard up
Nuclear physics Opinion and reviews Blog life: Entropy Bound Peter Steinberg offers a discerning take on nuclear physics Read article: Blog life: Entropy Bound
Culture, history and society Opinion and reviews Mission impossible Gordon Fraser examines media-darling Michio Kaku's views on the physics of the impossible Read article: Mission impossible
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