Read article: Fantastic foods
Fantastic foods
A breathtakingly beautiful book of food photos by the physicist, entrepreneur and chef Nathan Myhrvold
Read article: Fantastic foods
Read article: Longing for Laputa
Longing for Laputa
Robert P Crease wonders whether scientists shouldn't rule the world after all
Read article: Wrong turns and dead ends
Wrong turns and dead ends
Len Fisher reviews a book about the mistakes made by great scientists throughout history, including Darwin, Kelvin and Einstein
Read article: A romantic scientist
A romantic scientist
A "magnificent and superior" biography of the 19th-century Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted, reviewed by Anja Skaar Jacobsen
Read article: Between the lines: Christmas special
Between the lines: Christmas special
Books about the mathematics in The Simpsons, vanishing starry nights, medical physics, big questions and some very weird life forms
Read article: Making sense of Oppenheimer
Making sense of Oppenheimer
Ray Monk’s landmark biography of “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, reviewed by Robert P Crease
Read article: In search of the real Stephen Hawking
In search of the real Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking's new memoir, plus an anthropological study of how Hawking interacts with his colleagues and assistants, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Letting the sunshine in
Letting the sunshine in
A book about “sustainable” strategies for providing food and energy to a future population of nine billion, reviewed by Alison Walker
Read article: Web life: Empirical Zeal
Web life: Empirical Zeal
A blog about physics and evolutionary biology that packs a quantitative punch
Read article: Politics or physics?
Politics or physics?
Gerard DeGroot reviews Churchill’s Bomb, Graham Farmelo’s new book on Winston Churchill and the atomic bomb project
