Physics

What high-speed astronomy can tell us about the galactic zoo

Christopher Kochanek

If life feels out of balance, don’t worry – there’s always symmetry below the surface

4 minutes

Quantum common sense

Despite its confounding reputation, quantum mechanics both guides and helps explain human intuition

Philip Ball

The idea of creating a new universe in the lab is no joke

Zeeya Merali

The mathematics of music means piano strings can never be in perfect harmony

4 minutes

Echoes of a black hole

Ripples in space-time could herald the demise of general relativity and its replacement by a quantum theory of gravity

Sabine Hossenfelder

Minding matter

The closer you look, the more the materialist position in physics appears to rest on shaky metaphysical ground

Adam Frank

The plodding photon, or how the speed of light looks sluggish on a galactic scale

45 minutes

This granular life

That the world is not solid but made up of tiny particles is a very ancient insight. Is it humanity’s greatest idea?

Carlo Rovelli

Why we can stop worrying and love the particle accelerator

Joel Frohlich

Energy is like children’s toys: often hiding out of sight, but never actually lost

3 minutes

How the rainbow illuminates the enduring mystery of physics

Jon Butterworth

Has dogma derailed the scientific search for dark matter?

Pavel Kroupa

What makes a magnet? A balletic, visual exploration of electromagnetic force

3 minutes

How ticking atoms keep ultra-precise time for globe-connecting technologies

2 minutes

Taming the quantum spooks

Reconciling Einstein with quantum mechanics may require abandoning the notion that cause always precedes effect

Huw Price & Ken Wharton

Gravitational waves will bring the extreme universe into view

Daniel Hoak

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

Sabine Hossenfelder

Must science be testable?

String wars among physicists have highlighted just how much science needs philosophy – and not just the amateur version

Massimo Pigliucci

From relativity to quantum theory – our physical world explored through coffee

9 minutes

Why science needs to break the spell of reductive materialism

Stuart Kauffman

Physics is all fun and games at the Bubble Circus

3 minutes

Physics is on the verge of an Earth-shattering discovery

Pauline Gagnon

A science without time

From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics?

Gene Tracy

To think like scientists, students should work like scientists

Jon Butterworth

Gravitational wave blues

For a thrilling moment, it looked as though Joe Weber had bagged the biggest discovery in physics

Janna Levin

‘If you feel you’re in a black hole, don’t give up’ – Stephen Hawking explains

2 minutes

Galileo’s reputation is more hyperbole than truth

Thony Christie