How to stop the science saboteurs
With the rise of “fake news and alternative facts”, Dave Levitan’s Not A Scientist is vital if troubling reading, says Tara Shears
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Of minds and marches
Despite an ambivalence for science marches, Robert P Crease reveals why he went on one
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Clash of the particle people
Tommaso Dorigo’s book tells personal tales of the CDF Collaboration, but these are buried under technical detail, says Gavin Hesketh
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Why the laser industry needs physicists
In a field where challenges and opportunities vary almost daily, physicists' multi-disciplinary background is an asset, argues Lucian Hand
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Search for the ‘perfect’ theory
Mathematical physicist and blogger Peter Woit reviews Frank Close’s book that looks into the past, present and future of developing a “theory of everything”
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Web life: Errant Science
A comic about life as a university researcher, the blog is a “strange mixture of sarcasm, cynicism and giddy enthusiasm for science.”
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Ambition, thy name is woman
Kate Gardner reviews The Comet Sweeper by Claire Brock
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Mars is bright tonight
Tushna Commissariat reviews 4th Rock from the Sun by Nicky Jenner
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The one scale that rules them all
Geoffrey West's suggestion – that all complex organisms obey a few simple scaling laws – is rigorous and convincing, says Jennifer Ouellette
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Entry denied
When Galileo was stopped at the US border, as Robert P Crease imagines it
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