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WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

Physics

Physicist Frank Close’s new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the role of women

A sunflower (flos slois major) Basilius Besler, Hortus Eystettensis. Altdorf, 1613. Courtesy British Library

Life

New 杏吧原创 recommends the British Library鈥檚 Unearthed exhibition

2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

2RNRCMD Spacecraft on alien planet, illustration

Comment

The best new science fiction books of June 2025

Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

Physics

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

1.5 Degrees Celsius is the magical border - after that, there's no going back. Fridays For Future, 20.09.2019 in Bonn, Germany

Mathematics

Why exploring “equality” in a new maths book may help the real world

Tutankhamun London: The Immersive Experience Pres Images

Humans

New 杏吧原创 recommends Tutankhamun: The immersive exhibition

Astronaut Sally Ride, mission specialist on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the Flight Deck. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. (Credit: NASA)

Space

Life of first US woman in space Sally Ride makes a moving documentary

Comment

Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

Across the universe. Traveling in space. Time travel. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.; Shutterstock ID 200832383; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Physics

Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discovery about the nature of time

Comment

‘Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative’

Life

From Chelsea to the British Library, garden shows are blooming

Health

Is this book the ultimate guide for getting babies to sleep? Sort of

Earth

A rich new history of our obsession with extracting Earth’s resources