Physics
Paper Boomerang will be Tested on Space Station
You know this is a burning question on the minds of eight-year olds everywhere: if you threw a boomerang in…
Scientists Designing “Ion Shield” To Protect Astronauts From Solar Wind
British scientists are working to build an invisible magnetic "Ion Shield" to be used during missions in space. A minature…
Will Time be Replaced by Another Space Dimension?
What if time disappeared? Yes, it sounds like a silly question - and if the cosmos sticks to the current…
Forget Black Holes, How Do You Find A Wormhole?
Finding a black hole is an easy task... compared with searching for a wormhole. Suspected black holes have a massive…
A Possible Answer to Flyby Anomalies
Strange things are happening to our robotic space explorers. Also known as the "Pioneer effect" (the unexpected and sudden alterations to Pioneer…
Our Virtual Reality Universe
What if the Universe was in fact a simulation? A product of some information processor, creating space and time, energy and…
Podcast: The Large Hadron Collider and the Search for the Higgs-Boson
When it was first developed, the standard model predicted a collection of particles, and thanks to more and more powerful…
Could Antimatter Be Powering Super-Luminous Supernovae?
Explosions are almost always cool, and supernovae are some of the most spectacular and violent explosions in the Universe. In…
Podcast: The Important Numbers in the Universe
This week we wanted to give you a basic physics lesson. This isn't easy physics, this is a lesson on…
Creating the Conditions Inside Supergiant Planets
We won't be visiting a supergiant planet any time soon. But physicists are about to do the next best thing,…