Read article: What the movie Oppenheimer can teach today’s politicians about scientific advice
Robert P Crease says we still have much to learn from the 1954 hearing in which Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance
Read article: Size matters: the economies of scale, from the very big to the very small
Tom Tierney reviews Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
Read article: Albert Einstein: the living, breathing human being
Kate Gardner reviews Einstein in Time and Space: a Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
Read article: Meet five medical companies that have received 2023 business awards from the Institute of Physics
Medical-physics firms make up a large chunk of the winners of business innovation awards from the Institute of Physics
Read article: Could a different approach have saved the Superconducting Super Collider?
Michael Riordan argues that if the US had a more conservative strategy when building the SSC, the history of particle physics could have been different
Read article: Beyond a ‘man’s world’: patriarchs, matriarchs and the quest for gender equality
Isabel Rabey reviews The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
Read article: How sound is the model used to establish safe radiation levels?
Robert P Crease says that if we want to ditch fossil fuels, we must reassess the validity of the “linear no-threshold” model of radiation
Read article: What’s the right way to ensure the best physicists get honoured?
Scientific prizes should honour the best people, not those with the best connections
Read article: The two faces of a wartime aerospace engineer: the controversial tale of Wernher von Braun
Ian Randall reviews Depravity’s Rainbow by Lewis Bush
Read article: Science will suffer if we fail to preserve academic integrity
Caitlin Duffy says that if trust in science is to be maintained, researchers must be able to report their concerns
