Read article: Why humour matters: physics’ tradition of thoughtful joke-telling
Has big science killed “deep jokes”? Robert P Crease hopes not and asks for your funny tales
A travel guide to the Northern Lights reviewed by Tushna Commissariat
Brian Cox's venture into the life sciences reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Life among the MERtians
What's it like to work on Mars? Stephen J Pyne reviews an anthropologist's account of the team behind the Mars Exploration Rovers
Read article: Web life
A website full of beautiful and intriguing MRI scans of, er, fruits and vegetables
Read article: Beyond the executive summary
Richard Muller's Energy for Future Presidents, reviewed by Gail Marcus
Read article: Measuring culture
Physicists can measure objects but, asks Robert P Crease, can they measure values too?
Read article: Between the lines
A novel about general relativity and a book about Sherlock Holmes's scientific side, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: A physics primer, with equations
Leonard Susskind's guide to getting started in physics, reviewed by Lowry Kirkby
Read article: An iconoclast’s career
A new biography of Freeman Dyson, reviewed by Philip Anderson
