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Web life: International Year of Light 2015 Blog

Celebrating light, all year long

Image depicting particle traces from a “Higgs boson event” at the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector experiment

Between the lines

Tasneem Zehra Husain’s imaginative physics-history novel Only the Longest Threads and Peter Adey’s ramble through Air: Nature and Culture, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Photo of an old telephone labelled National Telephone Service

Ringing changes on vital information

How do you capture the information revolution in a museum exhibit? Andrew Robinson reviews a book with plenty to say about this challenge

Home page of the website Grandma Got STEM

Web life: Grandma Got STEM

A blog that defies expectations about who "gets" science and technology

Painting of a young James Watt dreamily pondering the steam coming out of a tea kettle

Craft, science, early industry

James Watt and the interplay between "thinking" and "doing" in the Industrial Revolution makes for a meaty subject, writes Basil Mahon

exhibition curator Lorraine Walsh with scientist and artist Eric Heller

Quantum-inspired art

Robert P Crease drops in on an exhibition exploring how quantum physics inspires graphic artists

Cast members in the play Oppenheimer lie prone on stage wearing dark glasses as they await the first atomic bomb explosion

A man, a plan, a bomb

The life of J Robert Oppenheimer makes for stunning drama in this Royal Shakespeare Company production, writes Margaret Harris

Photo of the last day of operations at the US National Synchrotron Light Source

Shutdowns and start-ups

Robert P Crease on the meaning of ceremonies we hold for labs that are closing down

Nature’s unknown unknowns

Seismologist Seth Stein is pleasantly surprised to find an introductory book on geophysical hazards that doesn't oversimplify this complex topic

Still photo from the film Interstellar showing a spacecraft hurtling through space

To infinity, beyond and back again

Space-travel film Interstellar awes our reviewer Tushna Commissariat with an epic plot and breath-taking effects, but what about the science?

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