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Where science has gone

C. Ulises Moulines (Munich): The Nature and Structure of Scientific Theories. What if there were rules for science journalism? No false balance, no miracle cures, no opaque statistics. A review of The Quantum Universe by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. Are there mysterious forces lurking in our atoms and galaxies? Physicists stalk a delicate “fifth force” of nature, hidden within the interstices of the other four — what they have not found is even more amazing. David Pescovitz on the map "A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 202". Who really discovered the expanding universe? From TLS, a review of The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order by Robert S. Westman and Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin. In physics, telling cranks from experts ain’t easy. Philip Ball is going to try to be like an arts critic, but for science. An interview with Allen Everett and Thomas Roman, authors of Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space. Here are the top 5 implications of finding the Higgs Boson. Delusions of grandeur: Information systems professor Ian Angell tells Laurie Taylor where science has gone wrong. The accidental universe: Alan P. Lightman on science's crisis of faith. Science affects everyone on the planet, so how and to what extent should the public help set its agenda? Jon Turney looks to the notion of vox populi research for some ideas. Oxford and Cambridge in partnership with US cluster to establish Philosophy of Cosmology as a new field of study. Michio Kaku addresses the question What if Einstein's theory of relativity is wrong?