Read article: The science of Shakespeare and his plays
Books about Shakespearian science and how to rebuild a scientific civilization after an apocalypse, plus a new take on “Powers of Ten”, reviewed by Tushna Commissariat and Margaret Harri...
Read article: Nanoethical concerns
Using nanotechnology to teach ethics has its pros and cons, finds Robert P Crease
Read article: Good scientists and honest people
A biography of one of the Manhattan Project's less-heralded physicists, reviewed by Andrew Robinson
Read article: Web life: Excursion Set
New Zealand-based theoretical cosmologist Richard Easther discusses big science stories and takes aim at bad science reporting in this personal blog
Read article: From the past, a fiery warning
A book about the 1783 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki and the lessons it holds for us today, reviewed by Hazel Rymer
Read article: Between the lines
A dual biography of Faraday and Maxwell, an insider’s tale of the Higgs hunt and a flawed study of the physics of warfare, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Why don’t they listen?
Robert P Crease reckons he knows why science has lost its authority among politicians
Read article: Tiny pretty things
A beautiful introduction to the glories of the nanoworld, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: The problem of missile defence
Rebecca Slayton's book Arguments that Count has implications that stretch far beyond Cold War history, according to reviewer Philip Webber
Read article: All alone in the universe?
Jack Lissauer reviews Lee Billings' Five Billion Years of Solitude, a collection of stories about exoplanet science
