Â鶹´«Ã½

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Physics

See the latest physics news and expert analysis on dark matter, the multiverse, theoretical and particle physics, quantum theory, and more from the world of physics.
Sign up to our newsletter
waves in the ocean

Physics

Bubble collisions underwater may create tiny droplets in sea spray

We have long struggled to explain why sea spray contains so many tiny water droplets – now, experiments suggest the droplets may be created underwater when bubbles collide and merge

News

B9XGR3 Explosion - shining - big bang

Physics

Our sketchy understanding of the big bang is ripe for reimagining

Leader

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins

Physics

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins

Features

Attempts to recreate red matter

Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

News

Physics

Quantum batteries could charge better by breaking rules of causality

News

Six laser beams cool and trap atoms before sending them into the interferometer

Physics

World's most sensitive force sensor measures in ‘quectonewtons’

News

Full profile of Great Sphinx

Physics

The Great Sphinx of Giza may have been blown into shape by the wind

News

Car mechanic fixing flywheel

Physics

Quantum flywheel could be fashioned from super-sized charged atoms

News

Monika Schleier-Smith

Physics

The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

Features

Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

Physics

Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

One of the biggest questions in physics asks whether space-time is classical or quantum in nature. From slow neutrinos to quantum foam, these experiments are hoping to finally answer it

Features

Physics

Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion

News

Physics

Strange upward lightning shoots out X-rays as it rises to the clouds

News

Physics

Could nuclear weapons testing resume as global tensions rise?

Analysis

Video

Hiroshi Sugimoto: 'I'm borrowing important scientists' experiences'

Video

Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop