Why don’t they listen?
Robert P Crease reckons he knows why science has lost its authority among politicians
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Tiny pretty things
A beautiful introduction to the glories of the nanoworld, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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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
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All alone in the universe?
Jack Lissauer reviews Lee Billings' Five Billion Years of Solitude, a collection of stories about exoplanet science
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Web life: Mahalo.ne.Trash
Astronomer John Johnson shares his thoughts on science, culture and family life in this oddly titled personal blog
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Pressures and constraints on Iranian research
Abbas Ali Saberi calls for an end to sanctions that are hurting physics and physicists in Iran
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Patenting science
Do patents hinder fundamental research? Robert P Crease wants your view
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Edible lasers and death rays
Jeff Hecht reviews an "old-fashioned cabinet of wonders" from the field of optics and photonics
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Hunting for neutrinos
Neutrino science gets a turn in the popular-physics limelight as Brian Clegg reviews an accessible new account of the field's history
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Web life: electrolights
A blog about the physics of everyday (and not-so-everyday) things
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