Robert P Crease seeks your suggestions for novelists and artists who use physics to reach deeper truths
Read article: The X-reality files: searching for the truth about the world
Andrew Robinson reviews Isaac Newton: the Asshole Who Reinvented the Universe by Florian Freistetter
Read article: Newton: egomaniac or troubled genius?
Philip Moriarty says physicists need to do more to tackle biases in science
Read article: Beauty and the biased
Dave Elliott ponders UK Committee on Climate Change's "full ahead" take on biomass energy with carbon capture and storage
Read article: BECCS it, says the CCC
James Dacey reviews Now You’re Talking: the Story of Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence by Trevor Cox
Read article: Talking about talking
Jane Hesling reviews Weird Math: a Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee
Read article: Strange thinking
With this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics being awarded for “groundbreaking inventions in laser physics”, James McKenzie examines the value of basic research to business
Read article: Nobel impact
Kate Gardner reviews Brave New Arctic: the Untold Story of the Melting North by Mark C Serreze
Read article: A chilling read
Tushna Commissariat reviews the film First Man, directed by Damien Chazelle
Read article: The first step
In his winning entry to the inaugural Physics World science-communication award, Liujun Zou explains why basic science is vital for China
Read article: The spirit of science
