Physics

The seven greatest unsolved mysteries in the mathematical world: solve them and win $1million!

A look inside one of the most spectacular feats of engineering: the jet engine.

Why a certain number pops up more often than you'd expect, and how this can be used to catch crooks!

Supported by The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Naked Scientists are offering candidates an opportunity to join...

Is athletics at high altitude likely to break high-jump records? Can a weight-lifter gain an unfair advantage from a...

What is steel? How have the production methods for making it changed over hundreds of years? What are different kinds...

What can chemistry do to make a greener future? Aaron Page envisages a carbon-neutral future based on the cutting edge...

In a world with ever-increasing energy demands and pollution, clean and abundant energy is urgently needed. The Sun...

Meteorites on the open market routinely fetch a higher price than the equivalent weight of gold. But how does this...

Almost 70% of the energy produced by a car engine is lost, mostly in the form of heat that exits along the exhaust pipe...

So much sound and fury over the Higgs Boson, signifying what?

The inside of a modern aircraft jet engine is a harsh and complex environment, but the drive for ever more powerful and...

CSI has come to Swansea. But rather than solving murders, for a team at the University's Technology Centre (UTC)...

Countless atomic recipes and crystal arrangements mean there are literally trillions of possible materials that could...

Spinning hundreds of times per second and carrying a load equivalent to the weight of a family car, often at...

Niraj Lal looks at a growing part of our electrical future: the solar cell...

Is earthquake prediction for California truly a problem beyond the powers of science, or is there something that...

A massive star ends its life with a BANG – a supernova - seen on Earth as bursts of energy in the form of light,...

First came fire. Cavemen rubbed sticks together and there it was, a source of ‘artificial’ heat and light, giving us...

The tale of antiquity's greatest mathematician, Archimedes, leaping from his bath and bustling naked through the...

Antimatter can make anything - even anybody - vanish merely by touching it. But at the moment antimatter itself appears...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland is now back in operation. By smashing particles together at...

Sure, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and has received a number of other honours, but has Sir Tim Berners-Lee yet...

Physics is full of surprises, but none so great as the discovery that 95% of the mass of the Universe is invisible to...