Over the past 15 years there have been significant increases in the coverage of science in the mass media and the number of hands-on science centres in the UK, two developments that would be expected ...
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Julian Barbour reviews the play God and Stephen Hawking by Robin Hawdon
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1 The Elegant Universe (Amazon, Amazon UK) Brian Greene (Vintage) pb 1999 2 A Brief History of Time (Amazon, Amazon UK) Stephen Hawking (Bantam) pb 1988 3 Just Six Numbers (Amazon, Amazon UK) Martin R...
Scientific competition is more than just a battle for glory and prizes, says Robert P Crease
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What do the evolution of the universe and the relative proportions of men and women in physics have in common? Well, imagine that men are matter and that women are antimatter. And note that equal amou...
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In 1951 Herman Weyl, a pioneer in the application of the mathematics of symmetry to physics, published a popular account of the field. His book was called, quite simply, Symmetry. To the uninitiated, ...
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The UK is about to experience an explosion in the number of new interactive science centres. By this time next year about a dozen major new science-centre projects will have opened (see table). These ...
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Thomas Baumgarte did not plan to stay in the United States. “It happened in several stages,” says the German-born astrophysics post-doc at the University of Illinois. A one-year undergradu...
The mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once wrote: “When we consider what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of h...
Anyone who visits the Alhambra palace in Granada will marvel at the intricate arabesque designs that decorate everything from the tiles and plasterwork to woodcarvings and the lattice-work in the wind...
