Read article: The legend of the leaning tower
The legend of the leaning tower
What did Galileo really do in Pisa?
Read article: The legend of the leaning tower
Life after the White Paper
Increased tuition fees will pose problems for physics
Challenges of cosmic proportion
A round-up of modern physics
The many roads to leadership
Scientific leaders through the ages
CERN – the W and the LHC
Future challenges and past glories in Geneva
European best-sellers in 2002
These lists of the best-selling physics books for the year to the end of October at Amazon, the on-line bookstore, seem to confirm that rule. While the two Stephens -Hawking and Wolfram – are am...
Read article: Kepler and Tycho Brahe: the odd couple
Kepler and Tycho Brahe: the odd couple
The story of two, very different, astronomers
Doughnuts reveal life’s secrets
Even the great Isaac Newton – taking a break from celestial matters by sipping a cup of coffee under his favourite apple tree – might have been stymied by one mundane question. How, he may...
Read article: Finding the flaw in falsifiability
Finding the flaw in falsifiability
Science is more complex than Karl Popper thought
A very strange year
2002 was full of highs and lows
