This week we celebrated the 1 year commemoration since Professor Stephen Hawking's death, and talked about some of the exciting...
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The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics This article belongs to a series on the 2017 Nobel Prizes It isn’t often...
Alom Shaha has spent most of his professional life sharing his passion for science and education with the public and...
Discoveries have shown that ionization from the sun is responsible for physics in the ionosphere. But the new NASA mission...
In the third part of our Diary of a Researcher series, MSci physics student Meriame Berboucha tells us how the...
Space and time bend. Intuition falters. What do we really know? Monopoles is a weekend of exhibitions, talks and performances...
It’s that time of year when outstanding advances in science are acknowledged and celebrated by awarding the Nobel prizes. Here’s...
Join Nobel Prize winner Art McDonald who will tell the story of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a Canada-UK-US laboratory 2...
Science London have joined forces with the Italian Cultural Institute to bring you two talks on what the recent detection...
Gazing at the night sky with our eyes or telescopes reveals twinkling stars and far away galaxies. But visible light...
All families have their secrets. When atoms get together they could reveal answers to some of humanity’s greatest challenges. From...
'One day, Sir, you may tax it': Faraday's prescient quip when quizzed about the practical value of electricity in 1850...
Why is the sky dark at night? This talk will explore the differing roles of puzzles and paradoxes in science...
Join the New Scientist for a special day long event aimed at non-expert, particle physic curious. As you read this billions of...
From gas lamps to LEDs and medical lasers, a panel of artists, scientists and theorists asks what role light plays in...
The Physicist in the title you will have heard of: Albert Einstein, patent clerk turned genius, inventor of E=mc2, origin...
Light travels extremely fast – in less than a second, it could travel seven times the circumference of the Earth....
A new study from the Dresden University of Technology in Germany has shown results in favour of the working operation...
UCL's festival of astronomy, cosmology, astrobiology and particle physics will feature exhibits, practical demonstrations, telescopes looking at the Sun, Moon...
Many physicists have envisioned the possibility that micro black holes will be produced at the LHC. In May, after a...
2015 Royal Society Bakerian Lecture by Professor John Ellis CBE FRS The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s LHC...
2014-15 WMC Science Lectures for Non Scientists in collaboration with The Crick Institute Amaze yourself at how much science you...
After a two-year break, the Large Hadron Collider is about to restart with almost double the collision energy. Follow six...
It seems that modern physics is in trouble – it has become a mess of free parameters, over inflated theories...
Shock physics is the area of physics that deals with what happens after explosions, impacts, or anything moving at high...
“Take the blue pill and the story ends, you wake up and believe whatever you want to believe. Or take...
At just under 300 million meters per second, the speed of light in a vacuum is one of the most...
The idea of invisibility cloaking - being able to hide things from view - has been a point of interest...
Higgs boson found ... probably Image: CERN Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva have announced the discovery of...
Chinese astronauts reach orbiting space lab Image: Xinhua/Wang Yongzhuo via Xinhuanet China’s Shenzhou 9 rocket – which last week became...
