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
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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
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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
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Why popcorn pops
Kate Gardner reviews Storm in a Teacup: the Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
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Fiendishly puzzling
Physics World reviews The GCHQ Puzzle Book
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You are here
Margaret Harris reviews Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner
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Is the universe a sponge?
J Richard Gott’s book on the large-scale topology of the universe goes beyond a “Cosmology 101” pseudo-history, writes Martin Bucher
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Web life: Ice Flows
Guide penguins to their Antarctic feeding grounds and learn about the behaviour of ice sheets in the Ice Flows game
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How weather became a science
A book on three pioneers of meteorology reveals much about their science, although little about their personalities, says David M Schultz
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