Is physics the most glamorous science?

Originally, it wasn't. It stood beside astronomy and medicine and so on, and was about the behavior of moving bodies. But since the 1800s, physics has chiefly been about smaller and smaller things. read more

In his new book Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA, science historian Frederic Holmes recounts the story of what one researcher called “the most beautiful experiment in biology”. read more

The list in Physics World was ranked according to popularity, first place going to an experiment that vividly demonstrated the quantum nature of the physical world. But science is a cumulative enterprise -- that is part of its beauty. read more