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Science under duress

Margaret Harris reviews Stalin and the Scientists: a History of Triumph and Tragedy by Simon Ings

Colourful artwork representing “convergence” at a single point

The struggle for convergence

Are all the fields of science converging towards a unified narrative? Manjit Kumar assesses the “deepest idea in the universe”

Web life: Precarious Physicist

If teaching physics to undergraduates strikes you as a secure, well-respected and at least somewhat highly paid job, this blog will challenge your assumptions

A Penrose diagram of an infinite Minkowski universe. The diagram is shaped like a diamond and has straight and curved white lines connecting opposite corners of the diamond, representing the curve of space-time. The diamond is filled with a starry sky and sits against a black background

Finding the right boundaries

Roger Penrose’s book on “fashion, faith and fantasy” in physics asks excellent questions, but reviewer Chanda Prescod-Weinstein finds some of the answers wanting

Photo of the beamline at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Unknown unknowns

Robert P Crease says people who raise “unknown unknowns” to promote a particular course of action are doing a disservice to science

An artificial threat?

Physics World reviews AI: Its Nature and Future by Margaret Boden

Inside a nuclear city

Physics World reviews the film City 40 by Samira Goetschel

The heart of the metropolis

Physics World reviews Science and the City: the Mechanics Behind the Metropolis by Laurie Winkless

Image of the LGBT rainbow flag on a background of blue sky. The flag is labelled with the wavelengths of red (700 nm), yellow-orange (600 nm), green (500 nm) and purple (400 nm) light

Gender balance, one woman at a time

Can a female teacher help convince girls to study advanced physics? Physics teacher Debbie Hayton had a novel way of finding out

Web life: Azimuth

The official blog of the Azimuth project, which promotes interdisciplinary work on climate change and environmental science

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