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Anything is possible (by Kitty Ferguson, January/February 2012 ): Stephen Hawking’s childlike glee in overturning assumptions, especially his own, is what makes him such an iconic scientist, says his biographer Kitty Ferguson
Moon dance (by John Gribbin, July/August 2011 ): More than just a pretty face, our closest companion in space could be the reason we are here at all, argues John Gribbin
Book review: The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene (by Marcus Chown, March/April 2011 ): Brian Green's dizzying new book offers a window onto the cutting edge of theoretical physics. Marcus Chown goes in search of the multiverse
Chown's Cosmos: Cosmic Accelerator (by Marcus Chown, March/April 2011 ): Six hundred million light years away, the ‘active galaxy’ Cygnus A fires huge quantities of particles at unimaginable speeds, finds Marcus Chown
Chown's Cosmos: Cloudy with a chance of hexagons (by Marcus Chown, November/December 2010 ): Why is there a six-sided cloud on Saturn’s north pole? wonders Marcus Chown
Material errors (by Mano Singham, July/August 2010 ): In arguing that quantum physics challenges the materialist view of the world, Jay Lakhani gets his science wrong, says Mano Singham
It's Immaterial (by Jay Lakhani, May/June 2010 ): Hindu Council director Jay Lakhani is also a trained scientist. He believes science and religion meet at the level of the infinitely small
The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition (by Marcus Chown, May/June 2009 ): Marcus Chown learns how the Catholic Church silenced Galileo
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo (by James Randerson, January/February 2009 ): James Randerson encounters a strange legend of physics
The Sun and Moon Corrupted by Philip Ball (by Philip Womack, May/June 2008 ): Philip Womack enjoys a popular scientist's debut novel
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku (by Bill Thompson, March/April 2008 ): Bill Thompson finds Michio Kaku's science impossibly bad
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You by Marcus Chown (by Bill Thompson, November/December 2007 ): Bill Thompson enjoys an introduction to quantum physics
Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segrè (by Graham Farmelo, July/August 2007 ): Graham Farmelo finds that even the greats of physics enjoyed larking about
Bad vibrations (by AC Grayling, March/April 2007 ): AC Grayling reports on the battle for the soul of a science
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies (by Peter Woit, September/October 2006 ): Peter Woit reviews the latest book from astrophysicist Paul Davies
God and the Modern Scientist (by Peter Landsberg, Summer 2001 ): How can we understand anything? asks Pater Landsberg
Science Studies (by Stuart Clarke, Summer 2001 ): Mars comes with a full complement of scientific myths says Stuart Clarke