30 March 2022
To make sense of mysteries like quantum mechanics and the passage of time, theorists are trying to reformulate physics to include subjective experience as a physical constituent of the world
30 March 2022
To make sense of mysteries like quantum mechanics and the passage of time, theorists are trying to reformulate physics to include subjective experience as a physical constituent of the world
29 December 2021
Surprising new insights about the strange physics underlying how clocks work could transform our understanding of time's arrow – and hint at how time works at the quantum scale
17 November 2021
Physicists have long speculated why our universe seems “just right” for life. The most complex answer might be the simplest – that every other universe also exists
17 November 2021
We have made huge progress in understanding some bits of the cosmos, but we’ve hit a brick wall with things like quantum theory and our own minds. Is there a way round?
17 November 2021
We are tiny specks of life in a vast, indifferent cosmos – but to say that decreases the value of our existence is to measure ourselves against the wrong thing
10 November 2021
An exciting collection of short stories by Courttia Newland covers a lot of interesting ground, finds Robyn Chowdhury
22 September 2021
Black holes devour stuff and then shrivel away over billions of years. Explaining what happens to anything that falls in explodes our current theories of physics, says cosmologist Paul Davies
30 August 2021
Perhaps the most important problem in physics is how gravity and quantum mechanics fit together, and strange fluctuations in gravitational waves could help us figure it out
25 August 2021
Quantum theory can’t be the final answer and some theorists are exploring new ways to formulate physical laws – and yet there is no guarantee that any theory can completely describe the universe
