Science

The abyss at the edge of human understanding – a voyage into a black hole

4 minutes

Tiny, entangled universes that form or fizzle out – a theory of the quantum multiverse

11 minutes

The Indian astronomer whose innovative work on black holes was mocked at Cambridge

13 minutes

Seven years later, what can we make of our first confirmed interstellar visitor?

59 minutes

Is it possible to design a shape to roll along any fixed path?

4 minutes

Mind-bending speed is the only way to reach the stars – here are three ways to do it

5 minutes

Find the building blocks of nature within a single, humble snowflake

4 minutes

Why the golden age of total solar eclipses is already behind us

5 minutes

A song of ice, fire and jelly – exploring the physics and history of the trumpet

9 minutes

We are not empty

The concept of the atomic void is one of the most repeated mistakes in popular science. Molecules are packed with stuff

Mario Barbatti

A dreamy tribute to the music of Brian Eno, rendered in paint, soap and water

2 minutes

Why does the Sun occasionally flash green as it eclipses the horizon?

7 minutes

There’s a striking link between quantum and astronomic scales. What could it mean?

5 minutes

Untangling entanglement

Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our simple, four-step explanation (no magic needed)

Huw Price & Ken Wharton

The key to geckos’ unrivalled climbing skills isn’t sticky feet. It’s subatomic

4 minutes

Time is an object

Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories

Sara Walker & Lee Cronin

All is One

The ancient philosophy of monism and the physics of quantum entanglement agree: all that exists is one unified whole

Heinrich Päs

What are you really seeing when you see magnificent images of space?

5 minutes

Machina mundi

How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces

Henrik Lagerlund & Sylvain Roudaut

Why aren’t our everyday lives as ‘spooky’ as the quantum world?

7 minutes

Burning ice, metal clouds, gemstone rain – tour the strangest known exoplanets

31 minutes