Several eminent popular-science authors have claimed that bad scientific ideas “held back” good ones. In Philip Ball’s view, such arguments deny the reality of how science is ...
Read article: Throwing the book at bad ideas
A history of one of the world’s most influential scientific journals is sound in the early years but leaves out some crucial modern developments, Peter Rodgers finds
Read article: Nature’s ups and downs
Autobiographies of Nobel-prize-winning crystallographer William Lawrence Bragg, his wife and daughter reveal a family life full of science and love, writes Mark Spackman
Read article: Physics in the family
Alok Jha's tales of the enigmatic water molecule and all its many applications intrigue Helen Maynard-Casely
Read article: Dripping with science
A forensically detailed analysis of what went wrong with the Superconducting Super Collider impresses reviewer Andrew Robinson
Read article: The great high-energy write-off
A smorgasbord of popular-science books for your end-of-year delectation, reviewed by Margaret Harris, Hamish Johnston and Tushna Commissariat
Read article: Between the lines: Christmas books
Siobhan Roberts’ “unflinchingly honest” biography of John Horton Conway sets Arthur I Miller reflecting on the way mathematical geniuses think
Read article: Trafficking in big ideas
A look at spaceflight's lesser-known stories with science writer David S F Portree
Read article: Web life: DSFP’s Spaceflight History
Lisa Randall's "entertaining and radical" speculations about dark matter and the dinosaurs intrigue reviewer Pete Edwards, but he's not fully convinced
Read article: A dark day for dinosaurs
Has Francis Bacon been unfairly vilified, asks Robert P Crease
Read article: Cooking Bacon
