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Charles Moore
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Scientists are switching to the Dark Side as they prepare to ramp up the power at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). After capturing a species of Hig...
The faster one travels, the slower time moves. We know this from Einstein's theory of relativity. So if something is moving incredibly slowly - a todd...
I was thinking about roles in life for people with autism the other day, and my thoughts turned to The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Lee Cooper. And I realized a simple thing. Sheldon is The Man!
I'm as guilty as anyone else, when I was a sixth former I always used to tease people in the year below saying "oh everything they tell you in physics in YOUR YEAR is a lie", thinking with ultimate smugness that sixth form is the time when they start telling you the real stuff.
Superheroes' powers are usually pretty far-fetched, but after research into spider webbing it seems they are not quite as unbelievable as they seem. ...
The universe is fundamentally unstable and might spontaneously collapse into a bubble of alternate reality, researchers have admitted. This unfortu...
Physicists may have finally found hard evidence for the existence of dark matter. And reports from the American Association for the Advancement of ...
The search for a machine which moves on its own, forever, is almost as long as any ridiculously impossible quest in science. Now another denizen of...
Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant. Some constants are considered to be more fundamental than others, including the velocity of light c and the Universal Gravitational Constant, known to physicists as Big G.
Before 2012 slips away it's worth remembering that this is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Kuhn's hugely influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which was itself revolutionary and has sold more than a million copies worldwide.
Physicists have devised a new experiment to test if the universe is a computer. A philosophical thought experiment has long held that it is more li...
Physicists studying the rotation of minuscule particles fired by exploding stars light years from Earth have found new evidence for a so-called 'Theor...
Countless science teachers, textbooks and fans of ice skating will tell you that ice melts under pressure. Unfortunately it is simply not true.
One problem is that women still think of engineering as dull and male-centric. There is a pervasive image of grease, hard hats and building sites. But our research shows that girls are prepared to engage with engineering given the right motivation. They are also interested in the relatively high salaries that can be achieved in the sector, and why not?
Obsession is a word that can be readily associated with physicists, probably more than any other species of scientists. Physics is one of the oldest disciplines that mankind has wrestled with, in our quest to understand this universe and us in it.
The retired professor who gave his name to the elusive "God particle" that scientists believe they have found said today it was "very nice to be right...
Yesterday was, for many physicists (and physics students), as a friend put it, "a bit like Christmas", and I think it is safe to bet that quite a few at CERN woke up today with a very Christmassy hangover. But, now that the party is over, a question arises (as often on the morning after): what exactly did happen yesterday?
In a couple of days, the final results on the search for the Higgs at CERN will be publicised, so in the meantime, I would like to dwell a bit on what comes after. Indeed, if the Higgs is found, this will only have confirmed, once more, that the Standard Model of Particle Physics was right, and was able to predict the existence of a new, exotic particle.
A mysterious, gigantic arc of light residing behind a massive cluster of galaxies has been discovered by astronomers. It resides about 10bn light y...
A physicist has teamed up with a bakery to create the first ever formula for making the ultimate sandwich – with no sogginess. It just looks lik...
Despite our spiritually-impotent, techno-worshipping race's arrogance that we're the height of all that's ever been, we are not actually the apex of human evolution, as Darwin's linear theory would have us believe.
Around one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together for the first time in an image captured over a decade by astronomers. Scientists pro...
This Nature blog post reports on some possible sources of error that may rule out the problem of the superluminal neutrinos reported by the OPERA team earlier in September 2011.
Note to Einstein naysayers - check your equipment before trying to prove the chief geek wrong. A loose wire may be to blame for CERN's claim late ...
Since the Large Hadron Collider has been closed for a while, and experiments concerning the search for the Higg's and other hot topics such as the "faster than light neutrinos" (there is still no firm evidence as to the validity of the results, hence the quotes) are not due to start again until March, in the meantime I would like to take advantage of the break to talk briefly about one of physics most interesting concepts: entropy!
