Interviews about Physics

Interviews about cosmology, astrophysics, electricity, energy, forces, gravity, light and maths...

16 December 2021

Our favourite Christmas songs are dusted off year after year. What makes it so hard to join the festive ranks?

14 December 2021

The Sword of Damascus is said to be unbreakable thanks to the power of nanotechnology. How is this possible?

14 December 2021

Theorised in 1973 and has now been made a reality. It's time to warp your brain around Quantum Spin Liquids.

07 December 2021

It's that time again to get your science brains rattling and see if you can beat this Christmas science quiz.

29 November 2021

A hypothetical planet looms at the edge of our solar system, maybe one researcher has finally spotted it...

19 November 2021

Nice try big bad wolf. The three little pigs have the power of science on their side now.

12 October 2021

Incredibly abundant, yet extremely difficult to detect, scientists must go to great lengths to catch neutrinos

12 October 2021

Complex systems and climate change take the award this year...

12 October 2021

Scientists at Fermilab may have uncovered something in muons beyond our understanding

12 October 2021

Dark matter makes up a huge part of the Universe, but what is it? Scientists at the LHC are on the hunt

12 October 2021

From the ancient Greeks to the present day, what do we know about the building blocks of the Universe?

12 October 2021

A simple table-top device known as a 'cloud chamber' can be used to see beyond our everyday world

10 August 2021

We thought the moon was magnetic. Now we know it's not. So why are some moon rocks magnetic?

10 August 2021

A maths tablet dating back to 1900 BCE depicts 'Pythagorean triples' a millennium before Pythagoras'...

27 July 2021

Some mental gymnastics needed to win gold in our last test of mental agility...

20 July 2021

With mixed data on the effectiveness of masks, are people just not wearing them properly?

29 June 2021

Test yourself against our scientific head-scratchers! How do you compare to our panel?

01 June 2021

Deep inside the old power station, monitors have been picking up increasing signs of life...

11 May 2021

It's one of the oddest phenomena in physics - and now it's been measured in the macroscopic world...

04 May 2021

The plot of 2015 film The Martian was driven by real science. Andy Weir wrote the story - here's his new book!

20 April 2021

How does information get into those radio waves

20 April 2021

Where did the wireless come from?

20 April 2021

What goes into making one?

20 April 2021

Some new results hint at some undiscovered physics