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Different zonohedra shapes created by mathematician Russell Towle

Bright ideas and their architects

Stephen Wolfram's collection of essays details big ideas and the people who thought of them, although some of the tales are rather partial, says Tony Mann

A retro style poster for the August 2017 total solar eclipse in the US, created by book author Tyler Nordgren

Tracing the path towards totality

Tyler Nordgren’s book on the science and beauty of a total solar eclipse flows between personal experiences and scientific facts

Artistic illustration of life on an exoplanet

Life as we do and don’t know it

Looking at everything from extremophiles on Earth to galactic habitability zones, this book on astrobiology covers all the basics, says Dimitra Atri

Photo of the Via Panisperna boys: from left Oscar D’Agostino, Emilio Segre, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti and Enrico Fermi

Fermi: physicist with a capital F

The first in-depth English-language biography of one of the heavyweights of modern physics – Enrico Fermi – has been long awaited, says Marina Cobal

Female factory workers using radium paint on clock faces at the Ingersoll factory in 1932

Zombie girls: a history

A new book tells the depressing but important tale of female radium-dial painters in the early 1900s who contracted radiation poisoning, writes Kate Brown

Cartoon of a neutrino seeing a psychiatrist about its personality disorder

Physics and cartoons collide

Matin Durrani reviews Quirky Quarks: a Cartoon Guide to the Fascinating Realm of Physics by Benjamin Bahr, Boris Lemmer and Rina Piccolo

Quantizing space

Margaret Harris reviews Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli

From ebb to flood

Hamish Johnston reviews Tide: the Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Photograph of a cup of tea being swirled round

Why popcorn pops

Kate Gardner reviews Storm in a Teacup: the Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski

Fiendishly puzzling

Physics World reviews The GCHQ Puzzle Book

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