3 June 2020
Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the cosmos – but that is only an approximation to a deeper truth, he says.
30 October 2019
The luminiferous aether has become a byword for failed ideas. Now it is being revived to explain dark matter and dark energy, and potentially unify physics
16 April 2019
Einstein’s genius casts a long shadow over fundamental physics. The documentary Chasing Einstein wonders if reverence for the past is blocking breakthroughs
17 October 2018
Stephen Hawking did more in his lifetime to advance our understanding of gravity than anyone since Einstein – and much more besides. Join Martin Rees, Marika Taylor, Stuart Clark and Tom Shakespeare as they explore the legacy of the greatest physicist...
19 September 2018
From Copernicus on, we’ve resisted the idea that Earth has a special place in the cosmos. Whisper it, but recent discoveries suggest that’s not the whole truth
11 April 2018
Physicists from Einstein to Hawking tried and failed to unite gravity and quantum theory. Now we have hints of a better – but not so beautiful – answer
