Life after Schrödinger
It is difficult to imagine how a discovery in physics could reverberate around the world in the same way that Dolly the cloned sheep has in recent weeks. As biologists clone sheep and monkeys – ...
The continued menace of communism in Russia
1. It is already nearly five years that the self-acclaimed ‘world socialist system’ crashed and the USSR broke into pieces. One might think that the grandiose experiment over the lives of ...
Thinking small
As Physics World went to press in mid-February, the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, was playing down reports that evidence for new physics – rumoured to be supersymmetry – had been fo...
Too little?
The announcement that undergraduate physics teaching is to be phased out at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has sent a shiver through the UK physics community. Students admitted last year will fin...
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This is the 100th issue of Physics World. The occasion is marked by a small section that starts with an article by Philip Campbell, who edited the first 85 issues of Physics World before leaving to be...
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Isaac Asimov: ‘There is nothing more fascinating than odd corners of mathematics’
Isaac Asimov reviews Think of a Number by Malcolm E Lines
