Interviews about Physics

Last September, LIGO found a blip on their radars, which they later verified were gravitational waves, but where did...

Scientists annouced the detection of these elusive ripples in spacetime but what are they? And why has it taken so long...

Do men really have more partners than women, and why are we having less sex than ever?

Recently, there has been growing excitement that Einstein's 'Gravitational Waves' might have been...

We say goodbye to the lander that bounced its way to fame across the surface of comet 67P.

Do black holes obliterate what falls into them, or do they leave a faint ghost of the structure of what they have...

How the world's telescopes are joining forces to try and see the unseeable: the shadow cat by the event horizon...

Black holes light up the Universe by creating quasars, which can in turn affect how galaxies evolve.

Event horizons, singularities and time dilation: we get to the bottom of the weird physics of black holes.

We can debate the matter endless within the realms of philosophy but what do current cosmological observations support?

Time seems to have a clear and irreversible direction; physics doesn't recognise this though. This problem has...

The idea of time being infinite is not a new concept but could solve many of our problems in physics when considering...

Time seems to have a forward direction - eggs don't unscramble for example but in physics, that's not the...

What caused the biggest explosion astronomers have ever seen? The evidence points to the cataclysmic death of a star.

Will flexible screens let us have Harry Potter style newspapers?

Row seven of the periodic table has been completed with the discovery of four super-heavy metals...

This year we tackled some pretty big questions, like when Graihagh Jackson asked, when did time begin?

Believe it or not, a chocolate fountain can help answer important maths conundrums...

How do astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) enjoy Christmas dinner?

If physics were music what would it sound like?

Ceres strange white spots have been demystified this week and it might hold clues as to the asteroid's origins...

Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity but they have never been detected...

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What is general relativity, and how did Einstein end up as the first scientist celebrity?