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
Read article: Sharing out the Nobel prize
Sharing out the Nobel prize
Three prizes should be awarded each year
In the matter of J Hendrik Schön
What lessons can we learn from the misconduct at Bell Labs?
Deconstructing rainbows
“A single ray of light has a pathetic repertoire, limited to bending and bouncing (into water, glass or air, and from mirrors). But when rays are put together into a family – sunlight, for...
Read article: Hanging together
Hanging together
Is physics in crisis?
Read article: Manufacturing firsts in physics
Manufacturing firsts in physics
The first collisions at accelerators tend to be stage managed
Read article: The Einstein File: J Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist
The Einstein File: J Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist
Why did the US spy on Einstein?
Read article: The most beautiful experiments in physics as chosen by real physicists
The most beautiful experiments in physics as chosen by real physicists
What is the most beautiful experiment in physics, according to our poll of Physics World readers? Robert P Crease reports
