Emma Chapman reviews Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity by James Riordon
Read article: Bring gravity back down to Earth: from giraffes and tree snakes to ‘squishy’ space–time
Honor Powrie extols the virtues being just “good enough” in life
Read article: When is good enough ‘good enough’?
Alireza Qaiumzadeh says that science can only exist if scientists are protected as civilians
Read article: Academic assassinations are a threat to global science
Condensed natter: Physics World editors give their compressed verdicts on top new books
Read article: Breakfast physics, delving into quantum 2.0, the science of sound, an update to everything: micro reviews of recent books
The US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has been dissolved for reasons of politics, not efficiency, says Robert P Crease
Read article: Is Donald Trump conducting a ‘blitzkrieg’ on science?
Kate Gardner reviews If I Am Right, and I Know I Am: Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret by Hanne Strager
Read article: Inge Lehmann: the ground-breaking seismologist who faced a rocky road to success
Honor Powrie explores the current status and future potential of quantum computers
Read article: Quantum computing: hype or hope?
Tara Shears reviews This is for Everyone: the Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee
Read article: Tim Berners-Lee: why the inventor of the Web is ‘optimistic, idealistic and perhaps a little naïve’
Neil Downie believes that students need more support to devise, build and test their own projects
Read article: How to solve the ‘future of physics’ problem
Robert P Crease examines a new example of “rant lit” from Danish theorist Jesper Grimstrup
Read article: Jesper Grimstrup’s The Ant Mill: could his anti-string-theory rant do string theorists a favour?
