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Physics

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shoppers hold Nordstrom bags in the King of Prussia mall, Pennsylvania, US on 22 November 2019.

    Brief letters
    One rule for good employee relations

February 2024

  • A conceptual illustration of a quantum particle.

    Quantum physics makes small leap with microscopic gravity measurement

  • An artist’s impression of Cern’s proposed Future Circular Collider.

    Cern aims to build €20bn collider to unlock secrets of universe

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