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Photo of a table used in the Jewish Passover for the ritual known as Seder

Storytelling matters

Robert P Crease considers how scientists can learn from the Passover storytelling ritual Seder

Painting of men of science in the 17th century

Diversifying utopia

Robert P Crease wonders why women played no part in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

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Stand out in the scientific job market

Books of advice on turning a PhD into a job and networking your way to scientific stardom meet with approval from Marc J Kuchner

Web life: Nuclear Hitchhiker

A student-run blog about nuclear energy, safety and policy

Photo showing Ernest Lawrence addressing an assembled group of workers outside the skeletal frame of the building that would house his 184-inch cyclotron

‘Big science’ begins

A book on how Ernest Lawrence and his cyclotrons pioneered a new way of doing science, reviewed by David Wark

Between the lines

A book that fills in the gaps in your astronomy education and an illuminating biography of Max Planck, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Artistic impression of a black hole at the centre of a swirling cloud of stars and galaxies

How black holes saved relativity

Marcia Bartusiak’s "exquisitely clear explanations" earn the plaudits of reviewer Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in this black-hole history

Illustration of a man hiding his eyes to show why anonymity is crucial to peer review

Peer review’s value

Robert P Crease on why trust and anonymity are so central to the success of peer review

Wheel-shaped graphic illustrating the size of asteroids that have passed near Earth, or will pass near it in the future

Visualizing the cosmos

A book of space-related infographics is "a marvel and a delight", according to reviewer Margaret Harris

Painting showing dozens of injured and bandaged people gathered outside a building with a traditional Japanese tiled roof, some lying down, some walking, as a team of medics treat a severely injured person in the background

Burned from the inside out

Susan Southard’s book about survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, reviewed by Brian Drummond

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