Along the way six “area volumes” have been published on the major subfields of physics – atomic, molecular and optical physics; plasma science; elementary particle physics; nuclear p...
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Physics has dined out on the invention of the transistor, the laser and various medical scanners for years. However, the success of these inventions has depended on researchers leaving their labs R...
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English-language versions, where they exist, are given in brackets. 1 Eine Kurze Geschichte der Zeit (Buy: Amazon.de) (A Brief History of Time) Stephen Hawking (Rowohlt) 2 Im Hyperraum (Buy: Amazon.de...
“Science without religion is lame, but religion without science is blind.” Einstein’s teasing remark is just one of the many contributions by scientists to religious thought that hav...
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Robert P Crease recalls a revealing encounter with Richard Feynman
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Last month the Royal Society of Chemistry mustered together a collection of like-minded bodies – including the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Biology and the Engineering Council – ...
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A more detailed review by William Mills of the International Radiation Protection Association and past president of the US Health Physics Society appears in the March issue of Physics World. In Permis...
It is a tribute to the dynamism of astrophysics today, and to the achievements of the past century, that Paul Murdin and his distinguished editorial board, together with over 500 contributors, many of...
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I remember arguing long and hard with a friend at a campsite in deepest Bavaria about how many stars one can see in the night sky with the unaided human eye. The answer, according to this charming new...
When I was first asked to review A Tribble’s Guide To Space, I thought – wrongly as it turned out – that the book was a send-up. Star Trek enthusiasts may recall that in one episode,...
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