Physics and DNA
50 years of physics and the double helix
Go, go, go – seminal moments in science
Which chemist, who inspired the fashion for breathing in the newly discovered nitrous oxide (laughing gas), almost killed himself while testing the effects of carbon monoxide? The answer can be found ...
Read article: Biff, bang, pow – science takes a knock
Biff, bang, pow – science takes a knock
The blurry line between science fact and fiction
Read article: The legend of the leaning tower
The legend of the leaning tower
What did Galileo really do in Pisa?
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
