Web life: Voices of the Manhattan Project
An archive of audio and video interviews with people who participated in the atomic bomb project during the Second World War
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Alices in a nuclear Wonderland
Historian Kate Brown reviews the fascinating but incomplete story of women who worked at the Oak Ridge uranium-processing plant during the Second World War
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The spot in the shadow
Robert P Crease shows just how hard it can be to assign credit for a scientific discovery
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Between the lines
Books about the physics community in Nazi Germany, the roots of radio astronomy and a whole lot of nothing, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Rise and fall of an electrical genius
W Bernard Carlson's biography of Nikola Tesla begins well but descends along with its subject, according to reviewer David Goodstein
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Web life: Space Politics
A blog dedicated to the idea that "sometimes, the most important orbit is the Beltway"
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Mathematics and prejudice
Edward Frenkel's love letter to the mathematics that captivates him is "a book to read to be inspired to learn maths" writes reviewer William Gasarch
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Between the lines: film special
Gravity thrills, Particle Fever intrigues and Hawking proves surprisingly insightful – physics film reviews by Margaret Harris and Andrew Williams
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Moving the goalposts
Robert P Crease finds that a new book on string theory offers progress for the philosophy of science
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Co-operation is needed to boost women in Latin America
Latin America is slowly overcoming difficulties in getting more women in physics, but increased co-operation is needed to reduce the gender gap further
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