Read article: From Post-it Notes to microwaves – why serendipity lies at the heart of innovation
Accidental discoveries lie at the heart of many technological innovations. James McKenzie runs through his favourites
Read article: Quantum inheritance and the ongoing quest for meaning
Phillip Ball reviews Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser
Read article: This is the critical point
Robert P Crease worries that physicists don’t realize why the humanities are so important
Read article: Money from maths
David Appell reviews The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
Read article: Learning from Black Swan events
Christopher Lavers says that when it comes to dealing with COVID-19, lessons should have been learned from previous crises
Read article: What would you do?
If you'd heard rumours that a physicist had abused others, would you – asks Robert P Crease – follow those rumours up?
Read article: Duck, duck, goose?
Ian Randall reviews At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds by Dan Hooper
Read article: Can a machine think?
Susan Curtis reviews The Road to Conscious Machines: the Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge
Read article: Could ammonia be the secret to shipping carbon-free?
James McKenzie wonders if ammonia could hold the key to greener shipping
Read article: Half a life
Jess Wade reviews the film Radioactive, directed by Marjane Satrapi
