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
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
