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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Between the lines
Books about asteroids and the atmosphere, reviewed by Tushna Commissariat
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The universe through a glass darkly
Dava Sobel's latest book, on the revolutionary work done by female astronomers at Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, is a fascinating read, says Tushna Commissariat
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Web life: Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
The latest offering from the Zooniverse family, Backyard Worlds asks citizen scientists to hunt for rogue planets in NASA data
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Space, time and spooky action
Author and journalist Andrew Robinson reviews the latest book on Albert Einstein and his difficult relationship with quantum mechanics
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The sound of trust
Would you put your $500,000 violin in a synchrotron? Robert P Crease meets a musician who did
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