Physics

How does our world work on a subatomic level? Credit: Varsha Y S, CC BY-SA

Standard Model – the Absolutely Amazing Theory of Almost Everything

Glenn Starkman 03/06/2018

Every attempt to overturn this theory to demonstrate in...

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Watch: Stephen Hawking, the Cosmic Bard, Traveller and Poet

The Wire Staff 14/03/2018

Stephen Hawking (1941-2018) was one of the most popular...

Illustration of a gamma ray burst in space. Credit: ESO/A. Roquette, CC BY-SA

Simulating the Universe’s Brightest Events in a Lab

Gianluca Sarri 16/01/2018

One idea for the origin of gamma-ray bursts, the...

D Shanti Priya. Credit: Life of Science

The Life Cycle of Shanti Priya and Her Stars

Nandita Jayaraj 25/11/2017

D. Shanti Priya, head of the astronomy department in...

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Answering the Question That Won Me the Ig Nobel Prize: Are Cats Liquid?

Marc-Antoine Fardin 12/11/2017

At the centre of the definition of a liquid...

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Debate: To Stop Superstition, We Need Viable Ethical Perspectives, Not More Science

Sundar Sarukkai 14/08/2017

Scientists cannot take a moral ground about blind beliefs...

The International Space Station (ISS) crew members (L to R) Paolo Nespoli of Italy, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Russia and Randy Bresnik of the US walk after donning space suits, shortly before their launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan July 28, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov

Three-Man US Crew Reaches ISS to Boost NASA Research

Irene Klotz 29/07/2017

They will join two NASA astronauts and a Russian...