See like a solar system
Robert P Crease discusses what the science of the solar system teaches us about perception
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China’s tunnel vision
A new book makes a compelling case for building the next big particle collider in China, but Richard de Grijs can’t help wondering who its real audience is
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Web life: Gravity and Levity
Tackling the big ideas in physics in a deep but often mathematically simple way
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A space–time operetta
Janna Levin’s Black Hole Blues describes the search for gravitational waves in a fun and human fashion, but Mark Hannam thinks the topic deserves more
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Below the solar surface
Margaret Harris reviews 15 Million Degrees: a Journey to the Centre of the Sun by Lucie Green
A daring raid
Margaret Harris reviews The Winter Fortress: the Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb
To infinity, but not beyond
Tushna Commissariat reviews the film The Man Who Knew Infinity
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Cloudships in our future
This lively book about geoengineering delves deeply into the science and history of fighting climate change with technology, finds Ian Randall
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Riffing on the universe
Jazz musician and theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander brings a fresh perspective to links between science and music, writes Trevor Cox
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Between the lines
A book about the benefits of failure in science, plus a thoughtful history of earthquakes, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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