physicsworld.com: print edition

When Creativity met Necessity

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Roger Bridgman reviews Mad Like Tesla and How James Watt Invented the Copier

Between the lines: fiction special

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT

A round-up of recent fiction books with a physics theme, reviewed by Margaret Harris and Matin Durrani

Reality bites

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Vlatko Vedral reviews Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality

Web life

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT

Universe Sandbox: an interactive space simulator that allows you to build your own solar system, fling asteroids at the Earth and send a teapot into orbit

In the wake of Fukushima

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Steven Judge and Hiroyuki Kuwahara report on efforts to monitor radioactive contamination in areas near Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station

Venus: it's now or never

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT

As next month's transit of Venus nears, Jay M Pasachoff examines the science and history of these exceptionally rare events

Atmospheric tales

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Robert P Crease asks why the discovery of Venus's atmosphere is still so controversial

Einstein, the travelling physicist

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Alberto A Martínez reviews Josef Eisinger's Einstein on the Road

Between the lines

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:00:00 GMT

Books on bubble physics, quantum exiles and arty photos of particle accelerators, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Return to Macondo

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Alastair Fraser reviews Joel Achenbach's A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: the Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher