Read article: A quest for ultimate reality
A quest for ultimate reality
Melanie Windridge reviews Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: a Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing and the Beginning of Everything by Amanda Gefter
Read article: A quest for ultimate reality
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
Read article: Latin America’s scientific ‘magic’
Latin America’s scientific ‘magic’
A book of essays on scientific successes and failures in Latin America, reviewed by Ronald Cintra Shellard
Read article: An interstellar culture clash
An interstellar culture clash
Jennifer Ouellette ponders the scientific and political messages of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem
