Read article: The power of authority: why we need to rely on experts
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined why the authority of science is so important – and how it’s so easy to lose. Robert P Crease explains
Read article: Our perilous planet
David Appell reviews Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More by Ellen Prager
Read article: A matter of trust
Philip Ball reviews Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes
Read article: Survival of the fittest: why businesses must innovate during COVID-19
COVID-19 has clobbered the global economy, which is why – argues James McKenzie – innovation is so vital for business success
Read article: Scepticism beyond pessimism
Andrew Glester reviews For Small Creatures Such As We by Sasha Sagan and interviews the author
Read article: Putting new physics on the syllabus
Niki Bell calls on physicists to insist that exam boards integrate modern discoveries into the education system
Read article: Artificial stupidity
Margaret Harris reviews You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
Read article: From entangled earbuds to Star Wars: more examples of ‘transmogrified physics’
Robert P Crease reports on your latest work in the exciting new scientific field he discovered
Read article: Net entanglement
Andrew Robinson reviews The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
Read article: The e-bike revolution
Electric bikes are all the rage, but James McKenzie wonders if the future lies with a minimalist kit that can be retrofitted to an ordinary bicycle
