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Physics
Articles about physics, cosmology, astrophysics, electricity, energy, forces, gravity, light and maths...
19 March 2018
Landfill is both ugly and polluting. But a new breed of technology promises to make it a thing of the past,...
27 January 2018
Flying has become a vital part of our lives. In the one hundred years since the Wright Brothers first took to the air,...
16 November 2017
The recent discovery of two neutron stars colliding brings us one step closer to understanding how heavier elements,...
08 November 2017
Recently, emergence has been helping to explain consciousness and free will.
26 June 2017
How did we find out what lurks inside the atom?
01 June 2017
An international league of scientists is kicking off the decades-long process of developing the successor to the Large...
15 March 2017
Before the introduction of the electric chair, there were numerous accidental deaths from electric shock, but it wasn’t...
28 February 2017
We slice open an LED light bulb to see how they work and why we need them.
27 February 2017
Renewable energy systems must rely on better, more powerful energy storage systems if the industry wants to become...
20 February 2017
Have you ever thought about the possibility of several parallel worlds? What if there is a doppelganger of yourself...
17 November 2016
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest particle smasher, stands a good chance of discovering the elusive...
14 November 2016
by 2050, over 20% of all electricity could be provided by photovoltaics.
04 November 2016
As the clocks go back, and we descend into winter darkness, Laura Brooks investigates some light based technologies.
15 September 2016
Can you use maths to help find your keys? An extract from a new book about the maths of our everyday lives...
01 September 2016
Street lights may seem just part of the mundane backdrop of life, but many firms have been devising exciting ideas for...
09 June 2016
What do two separate fields of science say regarding the existence of free will?
02 June 2016
Scientists are now working to make sense of what it means not only for their research but also for our understanding of...
17 March 2016
European researchers are helping humans get to Mars by developing faster engines, solar forecasts and better shielding.
16 February 2016
Various fields of physics predict we might live in a "multiverse"...
28 January 2016
Researchers are getting ready to test a tobacco-powered aeroplane thanks to a new bio jet fuel...
18 January 2016
The world you can see around you is just a tiny slice of the Universe, will we ever find the rest of the cake?
10 December 2015
Galaxies aren’t as massive as computer simulations suggest they should be...
03 December 2015
100 years ago, Einstein's theory of general relativity changed the world. Before that though, came special...
05 November 2015
Does symmetry lie at the route of all modern theories?