29 January 2020
It’s the ultimate scientific quest – to understand everything that there is. But the closer we get, the further away it seems. Can we ever get to grips with the true nature of reality?
11 December 2019
Dark energy dominates the universe, and could lead it to a cold, bleak end. But that's not to say we have much clue what it is or how it works
10 April 2019
Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away. Ambitious space mission Breakthrough Starshot is developing a way to push spacecraft there at a fifth of the speed of light
29 March 2019
The multiplication you learn at school is too slow for computers, so mathematicians are always searching for better methods. Now they have found one
26 October 2018
Mathematics produced by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, has been used to help simplify calculations used by particle physicists
19 September 2018
Supernovae are violent stellar explosions that pepper the cosmos. Studying them revealed the enigma of dark energy – a force that will determine the universe's fate
27 June 2018
Source of many a t-shirt joke, the tale of the cat that’s both dead and alive is pretty familiar. But even the experts are divided as to its meaning
20 June 2018
Take one ravaging disease and add two parts British imperialism and Italian nationalism – it's a toxic cocktail with criminal effects still felt today
19 June 2018
Dark energy is accelerating the expansion of the universe, meaning eventually all galaxies will be inaccessible, but aliens could be working on a solution right now
25 April 2018
For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize
