Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books
21 March 2018
From the hunt for a theory of everything to the complex Rosetta mission, there’s treasure to be found in a trawl of some of the recent popular science writing
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Stephen Hawking was a brilliant ambassador for science
21 March 2018
The death of Stephen Hawking has not just deprived the world of a great scientist, it has deprived science of an effective ambassador to the non-scientific world
Mould gets artistic to take particle decay photo to a new level
21 March 2018
For 30 years, mould marched across this image, eating through the protein in the gelatin-based emulsion and leaving a chaotic swirl of colours
Bacteria-killing nanofibres could make clothes that stop disease
16 March 2018
Antimicrobial fabric could slow the spread of diseases like Ebola. These nanofibres kill viruses and bacteria, and their active ingredient recharges in daylight
Mystery of neutrino masses may be explained by dark matter force
16 March 2018
Dark matter and neutrinos are both cosmic loners – they don’t interact with much. But dark matter could give neutrinos their mass through a weak repellant force
