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  • 29 Nov 2018
    Extensions of f(R) Gravity
    Tiberiu Harko

    Are dark energy and dark matter really dark?

    by Tiberiu Harko, author of Extensions of f(R) Gravity, 2018

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  • 25 Sep 2018
    In memory of Emil Wolf Credit: University of Rochester
    Gregory J. Gbur

    In memory of Emil Wolf, 1922-2018

    On June 2, 2018, the optics world lost one of its great scientists, as Emil Wolf passed away at the age of 95. He left as his legacy not only an incredible body of work, including over 300 papers and classic texts on optics, but generations of students and colleagues who benefited not only from […]

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  • 31 Aug 2018
    Adding energy to your work
    Washington Taylor, Robert L. Jaffe

    Add energy to your work

    To explore the issues surrounding energy flow and consumption in the modern day, you must first understand the basic science of energy. Washington Taylor and Robert L. Jaffe are Professors of Physics at MIT, and have written a textbook on the topic.

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  • 11 May 2018
    100 Years of Richard Feynman - 'Tufte's Feynman Diagrams' courtesy of Jeff Eaton via Flikr
    Tony Hey

    A Hundred Years of Richard Feynman

    For the 100th anniversary of Richard Feynman's birth Tony Hey author of The New Quantum Universe 2nd Edition, 2003 looks at the accomplishments and legacy of this infamous physicist as well as his personal and professional history with Richard Feynman

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  • 13 Mar 2018
    “Conquering the Physics GRE” – The Editor’s perspective

    “Conquering the Physics GRE” – The Editor’s perspective

    In this blog post, Senior Commissioning Editor for Physics and Astronomy, Vince Higgs, explains what makes Conquering the Physics GRE 3rd Edition, 2018 stand out as an exciting new acquisition for Cambridge University Press.

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  • 22 Feb 2018
    The (Microwave) View from the South Pole (photo credit: Brad Benson)

    The (Microwave) View from the South Pole

    Studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have provided measurements of some of the most fundamental properties of the universe itself: its mass, composition, and geometry. The CMB is relic microwave radiation that was produced 13.4 billion years ago, shortly after the Big Bang, and has been traveling toward us nearly unperturbed. Although its temperature […]

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  • 11 Jan 2018
    Nellis - blog Uranus and Neptune
    William J. Nellis

    The Magnetic Fields of Uranus and Neptune

    William Nellis author of Ultracondensed Matter by Dynamic Compression, 2017, discusses how the discoveries of NASA's Voyager Mission changed what we thought we knew about the magnetic fields of gas giants Neptune and Uranus.

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  • 3 Nov 2017
    Marie Curie in 1921
    Marta García-Matos

    Pictures of her

    Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM “Am I a logician? A writer? A mother? A woman?” While finding my way to the Centre for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, I was considering this as an opening line for a text on my experiences as a woman in […]

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