Science

Why aren’t our everyday lives as ‘spooky’ as the quantum world?

7 minutes

Burning ice, metal clouds, gemstone rain – tour the strangest known exoplanets

31 minutes

The tangled tale of how physicists built a groundbreaking wormhole in a lab

17 minutes

There’s no one way for an insect to fly, but they’re all amazing in close up and slo-mo

7 minutes

Raw solar-storm footage is the punk-rock antidote to sleek James Webb imagery

6 minutes

An interstellar voyage explores the ‘paradox’ of twins separated by light years

6 minutes

Imaginary numbers are real

These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Spectacular fractal patterns emerge when electricity meets a wooden surface

4 minutes

This is not an animation: the spectacular sight of magnets meeting a metallic liquid

5 minutes

Mind-bending new quantum experiments are blurring past, present and future

10 minutes

How insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate

8 minutes

It’s a massive, winged Cretaceous beast – could a human ride one?

9 minutes

Models capture the world-warping physics of what happens when stars meet black holes

2 minutes

Water, salt and music form a mesmerising visualisation of sound waves

7 minutes

Why simplicity works

Does the existence of a multiverse hold the key for why nature’s laws seem so simple?

Johnjoe McFadden

Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second

5 minutes

In this 1975 lecture, the maglev train’s inventor deconstructs his ingenious design

19 minutes

Liquid experiments show how beautiful things can happen when chemicals meet

6 minutes

The Standard Model might be the most successful theory in science. But what is it?

16 minutes

Meet the citizen scientist who changed how we see the Sun, and science itself

5 minutes

Building ‘bigger and better’ has pushed cosmology forward. Can it take it any further?

7 minutes