Physics

Simpsons fans will know only too well the opening sequence to the cartoon in which Homer discovers, during his commute...

When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little...

Scientists recently spotted a planet being born. It's just formed and is still enshrouded within the disk of dust...

Snowflakes form when water vapour condenses directly into ice crystals, and for many years writers have used their...

Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, although it’s almost impossible to escape from quicksand, it's...

What is a thunderstorm, how is lightning generated by clouds, how much energy is there in a lightning bolt, and could...

How were superconductors discovered, what are they, how do they work, what can they do for us, and what's new in...

Superconductors are amazing materials whose resistance drops to zero when cooled. Chris looks at how they can be used...

The Rubik's Cube is all about symmetry... How do you solve the rubiks cube - what is the maths behind the rubiks...

The story of rocketry pioneer John Parsons, who founded the Jet propulsion Lab...

Things usually are not what they seem, and sometimes the fundamentals become discomfortingly alien... Frank Witte...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been sending us back incredible pictures of the cosmos. How have recent policy changes...

George Bush's plan to establish a permanent base on the Moon by 2020, and send astronauts to Mars by 2030, has...

The illuminating story of colour constancy: why what you think you see and what you actually see are different...

Ultrasound Scans (USS), and now Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), allows us to visualise body tissues in high...

The placenta forms on the uterus wall during pregnancy and, via the umbilical cord, links the baby to its mother. Chris...

Radiologist Bob Bury investigates some of the new 'scanning' technologies, which have revolutionised medical...

Coincidences are just waiting to happen. For all those times you've witnessed uncanny events, or had cause to...

Discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen almost by accident, X rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes...

Nothing that you do is safe. Everything carries an inherent risk, but what is justifiable risk, and how do you assess...

Consultant radiologist, Dr. Bob Bury, discusses public perception of risk and how we assess risk in the context of...

By the year 2020, the number of people in the world suffering from blindness will have risen to 45 million. The vast...

Exposing patients to x-rays is a gamble between a necessary investigation to aid in forumlating a diagnosis, and the...