Between the lines
Theorist Mary Gaillard’s memoir of life at CERN in the 1960s sparkles with insights, while an overview of the hunt for the rarest metals on Earth fails to deliver the goods
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Web life: Astrobites
A blog where astronomy PhD students write bite-sized summaries of recent astronomy papers for undergraduates
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Individual recognition
Sahal Yacoob describes how a "target culture" can cause problems when applied to academia
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Insights on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, science fiction from the Indian astrophysicist Jayant V Narlikar and an overview of the cosmic microwave background
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Web life: Cosmic Yarns
A cosmologist blogs about science fiction and the scientific questions it raises
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The wealth of nations
Physicist César Hidalgo's argument for an information-centric view of economic growth is "wildly fresh and creative", says reviewer Mark Buchanan
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Looking back on the H-bomb
A memoir by the physicist Kenneth Ford offers an "engagingly human glimpse" into the US physics community in the early 1950s, writes reviewer Richard Moore
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An insidious and ubiquitous menace
A book about corrosion and the herculean efforts to combat it is "absorbing and interesting" but short on satisfying science, say reviewers
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Physics logos
Is there a logo that unifies all of physics, wonders Robert P Crease
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Between the lines
Books about the science of keeping things cool and a security breach at one of America’s premier nuclear-weapons facilities, plus a DVD featuring some very nerdy science comedy
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