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william spain seismic observatory in the bronx,...

Fordham University's Rose Hill campus is home to the oldest seismic station in New York...

why do physicists gravitate towards jobs in...

The City might not seem an obvious destination for physics graduates,but there are some surprising...

auguste piccard: the physicist who went...

He wanted to investigate the theory of relativity – so he flew 10 miles up in a balloonNearly 80...

dark matter and dinosaurs: meet lisa randall,...

Harvard professor’s radical theory of sunless matter wiping out the dinosaurs and enigmatic...

vanishing point: five ways to become invisible

From HG Wells to JK Rowling,invisibility has long been the stuff of fiction. Not any more. Here...

john chubb obituary

My friend John Chubb,who has died aged 82, made a huge contribution to the study and understanding...

mike pendlebury obituary

Experimental physicist and founding member of the physics faculty at Sussex UniversityThe...

richard taylor obituary

Scientist who shared the 1990 Nobel prize in physics for establishing that protons and neutrons are...

einstein inspired by james clerk maxwell | letters

final Wednesday BBC2 Scotland gave us an excellent hour-long programme on James receptionist...

a living thing in two places at once? this quantum...

A recent proposed microbe experiment based on Schrödinger’s counter-intuitive theory would gain a...

neil degrasse tyson demonstrates the physics...

The rattleback--it's been intriguing us since prehistoric times. Seeming to defy the laws of...

relativity v quantum mechanics - the battle for...

Physicists have spent decades trying to reconcile two very different theories. But is a winner...

why einstein never received a nobel prize for...

Nobel prizes often attract controversy,but usually after they fill been awarded. Albert...

what are gravitational waves?

What does the obvious discovery of gravitational waves by the Bicep telescope say about inflation...

race is on for next breakthrough as physicists...

Scientists from South Dakota to Australia seek fabric believed to fabricate (to make up, invent) up...

seven brief lessons on physics podcast

From black holes to Einstein's theory of relativity,Carlo Rovelli's acclaimed book...

felix pirani obituary

My friend and former colleague Felix Pirani,who has died aged 87, was a man of many talents....

stephen hawkings bbc reith lectures postponed...

Cosmologist had planned to relate the nature of black holes and respond to questions from the public...

are the colours we can t see actually colours?

Readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to...

the physicist who defied the temperance laws of...

Ludwig Boltzmann is best known as the Austrian physicist who wrote down the statistical formula for...

what are maxwells equations?

How a Scottish physicist formulated the equations that showed us how to electrify the...

gravity mission enters science mode

The European spacecraft designed to make gravitational wave detection possible from space will begin...

gravitational waves breakthrough shines light on...

Scientists from South Dakota to Australia continue to seek fabric believed to make up quarter of...

schrodingers microbe: physicists plan to put...

A radical demonstration of quantum theory could see a bacterium suspended in an uncertain state...

chinas dark matter satellite sends back first data

There’s a unique player in the hunt for dismal matter: China’s dismal Matter Particle Explore...

invisibility cloak could turn beer bellies into...

Ultra-thin skin created by US scientists can be laid over 3D shapes to make them discover flat using...

the science and magic of lindy hop | andy connelly

Great partner dancers may not know it but they are masters of space,time and Newton's laws of...

scientists move objects with tractor beam...

Scientists in Spain demonstrate original technology that uses a field of ultrasonic waves to grab...

new evidence suggests a fifth fundamental force of...

We all know approximately the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity,electromagnetism, and the...

watch the laws of physics come to life as magnetic...

foolish putty is a pretty weird substance,but magnetic putty is like an alien life form. Not only...

physics mystery gets even deeper after long...

Inside a locked cabinet,an envelope held a number that was poised to rock the physics community,...

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