Steven Weinberg inhabits a bleak world infested with adversaries that he is impelled to combat. He faces up to them with scientific rigour and lawyerly precision, as readers of this fascinating book o...
Read article: Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries, Steven Weinberg
What were the most important equations of 20th-century science? Here are 11 essays, aimed at non-specialists, each centred on a different equation. The authors are distinguished in their various field...
Read article: It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, Graham Farmelo (ed)
We need to make it easier for women to be physicists and raise a family
Female physicists meet at the first international conference aimed at lifting the number of women in physics
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More female leaders are needed to encourage women to take up physics
Read article: Turning women into leaders
Robert Marc Friedman warns that historical characters must be portrayed carefully
Read article: Dangers of dramatizing science
Belief in the existence of black holes is the ultimate act of faith for a physicist
Read article: Black holes and beyond
The momentous complexity of modern physics is often seen as a stumbling block whenever one is asked to explain to the wider public – or to new students – how beautiful all of it is, and ho...
Read article: Nature’s geometric uniqueness
The wonder of astronomy is expressed in a collection of poems by Rebecca Elson
Many think that the Greek philosopher impeded science - but Michael Rowan-Robinson disagrees
Read article: Was Aristotle the first physicist?
