Between the lines
Books about single-crystal growth and some of history’s most important science texts, reviewed by Peter Dryburgh and Margaret Harris
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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
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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
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Black elephants: scientific issues that we don’t talk about
Robert P Crease tackles scientific rituals that we recognize but don't talk about
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Between the lines
A subtle and fiendish collection of physics problems and a geophysical journey that revels in unusual connections, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Web life: The Conversation
A multi-country mega-blog that takes academic discourse into the mainstream
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Latin America’s scientific ‘magic’
A book of essays on scientific successes and failures in Latin America, reviewed by Ronald Cintra Shellard
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An interstellar culture clash
Jennifer Ouellette ponders the scientific and political messages of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem
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15 years and counting
Robert P Crease reflects on a decade and a half of the Physics World Critical Point column
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Between the lines
Sun-centred poetry, an insider’s view of dark matter research and a tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope, reviewed by Margaret Harris and Tushna Commissariat
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