Pioneer sailing on the crest of a wave-particle
The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor
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Search for a universal prologue
Before the Beginning
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Extravaganza with a star-studded past
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy
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Slippery stuff at the cutting edge
Introduction to Plasma Physics
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Albert's quantum leap
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein - The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein - The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
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Just relatively simple
An Introduction to Special Relativity and its Applications
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Without a beer mat
In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks
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It all adds up to a powerful figure
Benacerraf and his Critics
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A never-ending story
Keys To Infinity
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from an artist who could be so self-effacing that he occasionally used a handkerchief to obscure the tools of his trade: "I, like many another boy, burst into the...
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Appointments
University of Sussex. Ben Martin, professor of science and technology policy studies, has been appointed director of the Science Policy Research Unit. Department for Education and Employment Tim...
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God's little helper
James Watson, the joint father of molecular biology, has just arrived in a UK that now boasts one famous cloned sheep. But, as he tells Kam Patel, the prospect of cloned humans saddens rather than...
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Is the tune-in a switch-off
Two weeks before the launch of Channel 5 Katrina Wishart asks five academics - Do we need a fifth terrestrial television channel and what do you think of the programmes it is offering? Channel 5's...
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Rememberer of loves past
Anthony Minghella tells Harriet Swain about his journey from Hull academic to Hollywood film-maker and discusses historians' charges that the hero of his new film The English Patient was a Nazi spy....
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Hard facts and erratic people
Are risks culturally constructed or objectively measurable? John Adams suggests a model that can accommodate both views. The last time the Royal Society tried to write a report about risk management...