12 November 2021
Before COP26, the world was on course for 2.7°C of warming – now it’s at 2.4°C, which is a significant improvement. Future summits will need to push further on cutting emissions and funding climate adaptation
10 November 2021
Governments joined industry leaders to create the Clydebank Declaration, committing to creating zero-carbon corridors along major shipping routes – but big questions on cleaning up a heavily polluting industry remain unresolved
10 November 2021
The first COP26 draft statement was released, with an acknowledgment of the role of fossil fuels in climate change. Plus, 24 countries and several car-makers pledged to end the sale of cars run on fossil fuels by 2040
9 November 2021
The key outcome of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is known as the cover decision, a draft of which is expected to be published soon. Plus, the UK announced plans to fund nuclear technology
8 November 2021
Consensus on the text of the final COP26 agreement has been hard to come by so far, and former US president Barack Obama today encouraged negotiators to take partial victories
8 November 2021
A forgotten idea of Albert Einstein’s might be the saviour of cosmology, plus the great man’s (vain) quest to undermine quantum weirdness and the question of why the universe looks “just right” for our existence
24 March 2021
The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has seen "tantalising hints" of physics beyond our standard understanding of the universe, but will the results stand up?
6 January 2021
Dozens of cities around the world already provide free public transport for their residents. Many other places should get on board, says Richard Webb
19 February 2020
A difference in the properties of matter and antimatter could help explain our universe – but a property called the Lamb shift is similar in particles of both
31 July 2019
How the physical world influences our conscious experience, and vice versa, are fundamental mysteries. Will we ever work them out, asks Richard Webb
