Read article 'The beauty of falling'
The beauty of falling
Kurt Hinterbichler reviews Claudia de Rham's first-hand and personal glimpse into the life of a theoretical physicist and the process of discovery.
Read article 'The beauty of falling'
Read article 'Space oddities'
Space oddities
In his new popular book, Harry Cliff tackles the thorny subject of anomalies in fundamental science.
Read article 'Beyond Bohr and Einstein'
Beyond Bohr and Einstein
Jim Al-Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John L Heilbron.
Read article 'Dark matter: evidence, theory and constraints'
Dark matter: evidence, theory and constraints
Dark Matter: Evidence, Theory and Constraints will be useful to those who wish to broaden or extend their research interests, for instance to a different dark-matter candidate.
Read article 'From spinors to supersymmetry'
From spinors to supersymmetry
In their new book, From Spinors to Supersymmetry, Herbi Dreiner, Howard Haber and Stephen Martin describe the two-component formalism of spinors and its applications to particle physics, quantum field...
Read article 'Intensely focused on physics'
Intensely focused on physics
The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, edited by Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi, provides a comprehensive review of an upgrade project designed to boost the total event statistics of the LHC by n...
Read article 'Inside pyramids, underneath glaciers'
Inside pyramids, underneath glaciers
Coordinated by editors Paola Scampoli and Akitaka Ariga, Cosmic Ray Muography provides an invaluable snapshot of a booming research area.
Read article 'Become a Particle Physicist in Eight Simple Moves'
Become a Particle Physicist in Eight Simple Moves
Simone Ragoni’s book is a delightful gift for anyone whom you want to inspire to become a particle physicist of tomorrow, writes Chetna Krishna.
Read article 'Wonderstruck wanderings'
Wonderstruck wanderings
The wonder and awe that we sense when we look at the starry skies is a major motivation to do science. Both Plato (Theaetetus 155d) and Aristotle (Metaphysics 982b12) wrote that philosophy starts in w...
Read article 'The full spectra of particle physics'
The full spectra of particle physics
This textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, written by experimental particle-physicist Pascal Paganini of Ecole Polytechnique, aims to teach Standard Model calculations of quantiti...