Science

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

7 minutes

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

17 minutes

Cogitating black holes

The Universe cannot always be understood through observation. Instead, physicists explore by devising thought experiments

Michael Dine

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

Quantum Wittgenstein

Metaphysical debates in quantum physics don’t get at ‘truth’ – they’re nothing but a form of ritual, activity and culture

Timothy Andersen

From ‘chandeliers’ to entangled qubits, here’s what happens inside a quantum computer

9 minutes

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

10 minutes

Calculate but don’t shut up

The cliché has it that the Copenhagen interpretation demands adherence without deep enquiry. That does physics a disservice

Jim Baggott

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

16 minutes

The unified Universe

Physics displays an uncanny alignment at its very deepest levels. Is a grand theory of everything finally within reach?

James Wells

Time is fundamental, space is emergent – why physicists are rethinking reality

9 minutes

Quantum music

Physics has long looked to harmony to explain the beauty of the Universe. But what if dissonance yields better insights?

Katie McCormick

‘Moving paintings’ evoke a quantum particle collision at the Large Hadron Collider

4 minutes

Life with purpose

Biologists balk at any talk of ‘goals’ or ‘intentions’ – but a bold new research agenda has put agency back on the table

Philip Ball

From chaos to free will

A crude understanding of physics sees determinism at work in the Universe. Luckily, molecular uncertainty ensures this isn’t so

George Ellis

Quantum entanglement is tough to dumb down, but this analogy can help detangle it

20 minutes

A quantum odyssey from the tip of a pen to the dark side of human knowledge

3 minutes

Why Newton’s ‘law of universal gravitation’ is not so universal after all

6 minutes

Splitting the Universe

Hugh Everett blew up quantum mechanics with his Many-Worlds theory in the 1950s. Physics is only just catching up

Sean Carroll

Extremely small and incredibly fast, muons offer amazing proof of special relativity

5 minutes

Logic tells us that antimatter should have annihilated the Universe. So why hasn’t it?

4 minutes

Seeing the quantum

The human eye is a surprisingly good photon detector. What can it spy of the line between the quantum and classical worlds?

Rebecca Holmes