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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

Superhero science: from fiction to fact

27 Nov 2017
Taken from the November 2017 issue of Physics World

Michael Follows reviews The Secret Science of Superheroes, edited by Mark Lorch and Andy Miah

Amazonian goddess Antiope uses the Lasso of Truth in the 2017 film Wonder Woman
Amazonian goddess: Antiope uses the Lasso of Truth in the 2017 film Wonder Woman. The creator of the Wonder Woman comics also invented a lie detector. (Courtesy: Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
Much like superheroes, scientists tend to assemble…at conferences or science festivals. At one suc

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Michael Follows teaches physics at King Edward’s School in Birmingham, UK, and enjoys writing about science, e-mail mrf@kes.bham.sch.uk
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