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Physics

July 2024

  • Computer-generated abstract fractal background of blue glowing quantum energy correlation in space

    ‘A huge opportunity’: Quantum leap for UK as tech industry receives £100m boost

    Science secretary backs five quantum technology hubs in push for UK to transform healthcare and industry
  • Sir Paul Nurse shakes hands with Rosemary Fowler

    Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery

    Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD to have a family
  • Benjamin Labatut (1)

    ‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut

    His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama

June 2024

  • Dr Joseph Cotter with the UK's first commercial quantum accelerometer for navigation.

    ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS

    Subatomic instrument will be able to accurately pinpoint locations under ground and under water where satellite signals cannot reach
  • Pythagoras of Samos around 570 BC - 510 BC according to Metaponto in the Basilicata. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.<br>CW1WFW Pythagoras of Samos around 570 BC - 510 BC according to Metaponto in the Basilicata. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Can you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?

    A curious cup and some wacky wheels
  • The Milky Way above St Catherine’s Chapel, Abbotsbury

    ‘We’re trying to find the shape of space’: scientists wonder if the universe is like a doughnut

    Rather than stretching to infinity and beyond, the universe may have a topology that can eventually be mapped

April 2024

  • Brian Haywood

    Other lives
    Brian Haywood obituary

  • Artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star and the black hole around their common centre of mass.

    Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times mass of sun

  • A wand pointing at a top hat with atoms coming out of it

    The big idea
    The big idea: are we about to discover a new force of nature?

  • Galaxy M106 photographed by the Hubble telescope.

    World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe

  • Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?

  • Science Weekly
    Remembering physicist Peter Higgs – podcast

  • Peter Higgs obituary

  • Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

  • Study sheds light on the white dwarf star, likely destroyer of our solar system

  • Science Weekly
    Horny tortoises and solar mysteries: what scientists can learn from a total eclipse – podcast

  • New 3D cosmic map raises questions over future of universe, scientists say

March 2024

  • Writer and journalist Gary Younge shot in Ridley Road.

    Brief letters
    Younge writing on racism best since Baldwin

    Brief letters: Racism in politics | A propulsion problem | Joy in education | Salford’s rugby win
  • Artist's impression of boiling sea

    Science Weekly
    A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in science – podcast

    Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new theory challenging the existence of dark matter to an alarming study about the possible impact of microplastics on our health and a glimpse of a ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ deep in space
  • A photo combining an image of a supercluster with magenta-tinted clumps of an inferred dark matter map derived from observations by Nasa's Hubble space telescope.

    Controversial new theory of gravity rules out need for dark matter

    Exclusive: Paper by UCL professor says ‘wobbly’ space-time could instead explain expansion of universe and galactic rotation
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