Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books on household science, ambitious plans for living on Mars and the most important numbers in physics, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Between the lines
Read article: Web life: Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics
Web life: Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics
The venerable "journal club" concept is thriving in the online environment
Read article: Room at the bottom
Room at the bottom
A biography of Silicon Valley's "quiet revolutionary", Gordon Moore, gets Paul Michael Grant thinking about the future of Moore's eponymous law
Read article: Lab lit revealed
Lab lit revealed
Robert P Crease talks to the founder of a website devoted to literature about laboratories
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books about single-crystal growth and some of history’s most important science texts, reviewed by Peter Dryburgh and Margaret Harris
Read article: The cradle of modern science
The cradle of modern science
Steven Weinberg's latest book offers rich insights on the history of science, but reviewer Paul Montgomery finds its treatment of philosophy frustrating
Read article: Tinker, tailor, physicist, spy?
Tinker, tailor, physicist, spy?
Was Bruno Pontecorvo a Soviet spy, or just a naive nuclear physicist caught up in a bigger drama? Simone Turchetti weighs up the evidence in Frank Close's new book
Read article: Black elephants: scientific issues that we don’t talk about
Black elephants: scientific issues that we don’t talk about
Robert P Crease tackles scientific rituals that we recognize but don't talk about
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
A subtle and fiendish collection of physics problems and a geophysical journey that revels in unusual connections, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Web life: The Conversation
Web life: The Conversation
A multi-country mega-blog that takes academic discourse into the mainstream
