Read article 'Physicists gather for an extravaganza of beauty'
Lively discussions and precise measurements dominated Beauty 2006, the latest international conference on B-physics. Neville Harnew and Guy Wilkinson report.
Read article 'Rochester conference goes back to Russia'
Moscow hosted this year's major summer conference, which presented the latest news across a broad range of topics. Gennady Kozlov and Simon Eidelman report.
Read article 'Metallic water becomes even more accessible'
Water is well known for its astonishing range of unusual properties, and now Thomas Mattsson and Michael Desjarlais of Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have suggested yet another one.
Read article 'Can experiment access Planck-scale physics?'
A gravitational analogue of Brownian motion could now make it possible to investigate Planck-scale physics using the latest quantum technology.
Read article 'Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities'
Both a history and a metahistory, this book focuses on the development of various theoretical representations of electrons from the late 1890s until 1925, and the methodological problems associated wi...
Read article 'Brane-Localized Gravity'
In this book the author provides a detailed introduction to the brane-localized gravity of Randall and Sundrum, in which gravitational signals can localize around our four-dimensional world in the eve...
Read article 'The Cosmic Landscape. String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design'
Luis Alvarez-Gaume reviews in 2006 The Cosmic Landscape. String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design.
Read article 'Modern Supersymmetry: Dynamics and Duality'
Alongside an overview of important recent developments in supersymmetry the book covers topics of interest to both formal and phenomenological theorists.
Read article 'Relativity on a mountain'
Alan Walker describes how a schoolgirl from Scotland used steel and scintillator to test Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Read article 'Lattice Gauge Theories: An Introduction, 3rd edition'
This broad introduction to lattice gauge field theories, in particular quantum chromodynamics, serves as a textbook for advanced graduate students, and also provides the reader with the necessary anal...
