Emma Chapman reviews Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time by Herlinde Koelbl (translated by Lois Hoyal)
Read article: The cost of excellence: top scientists on the brutality of the academic system
James McKenzie looks at some of the photonics and instrumentation firm that have won 2023 business awards from the Institute of Physics
Read article: Optics and instrumentation firms share in the 2023 Institute of Physics business awards
Rachel Youngman explains the rationale behind the Institute of Physics’ “Bin the boffin” campaign
Read article: Why the Institute of Physics launched a campaign to get the media to ‘Bin the boffin’
Kyla Rushman reviews the film The Creator produced, directed and co-written by Gareth Edwards
Read article: The Creator: a big movie with big effects that explores AI ethics in surprising ways
Robert P Crease says we still have much to learn from the 1954 hearing in which Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance
Read article: What the movie Oppenheimer can teach today’s politicians about scientific advice
Tom Tierney reviews Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
Read article: Size matters: the economies of scale, from the very big to the very small
Kate Gardner reviews Einstein in Time and Space: a Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
Read article: Albert Einstein: the living, breathing human being
Medical-physics firms make up a large chunk of the winners of business innovation awards from the Institute of Physics
Read article: Meet five medical companies that have received 2023 business awards from the Institute of Physics
Michael Riordan argues that if the US had a more conservative strategy when building the SSC, the history of particle physics could have been different
Read article: Could a different approach have saved the Superconducting Super Collider?
Isabel Rabey reviews The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
Read article: Beyond a ‘man’s world’: patriarchs, matriarchs and the quest for gender equality
