Physics in the family
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
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Dripping with science
Alok Jha's tales of the enigmatic water molecule and all its many applications intrigue Helen Maynard-Casely
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The great high-energy write-off
A forensically detailed analysis of what went wrong with the Superconducting Super Collider impresses reviewer Andrew Robinson
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Between the lines: Christmas books
A smorgasbord of popular-science books for your end-of-year delectation, reviewed by Margaret Harris, Hamish Johnston and Tushna Commissariat
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Trafficking in big ideas
Siobhan Roberts’ “unflinchingly honest” biography of John Horton Conway sets Arthur I Miller reflecting on the way mathematical geniuses think
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Web life: DSFP’s Spaceflight History
A look at spaceflight's lesser-known stories with science writer David S F Portree
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A dark day for dinosaurs
Lisa Randall's "entertaining and radical" speculations about dark matter and the dinosaurs intrigue reviewer Pete Edwards, but he's not fully convinced
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Cooking Bacon
Has Francis Bacon been unfairly vilified, asks Robert P Crease
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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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