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Ultracold atoms can work together to shape or steer light

Physics

Ultracold atoms can work together to shape or steer light

When a collection of atoms is cooled to just above absolute zero, they can act as one, and control light through their electrical and magnetic interactions with it

News

A boat floating upside down

Physics

Watch a toy boat float upside down in a levitating puddle

News

The fuzzy law that could break the idea of a mathematical universe

Physics

The fuzzy law that could break the idea of a mathematical universe

Features

Science with Sam - The Multiverse

Physics

Science with Sam: Is our reality just one part of a multiverse?

Video

Inside the incredibly slow race to reinvent time

Physics

Inside the incredibly slow race to reinvent time

Features

blue flame

Physics

Blue whirl that consumes all fuel it encounters is three flames in one

News

Why dark matter should be called something else

Space

Why dark matter should be called something else

Comment

bricks and LED

Physics

Ordinary bricks laced with conductive fibres can store energy

News

CMS

Physics

Physicists have a massive problem as Higgs boson refuses to misbehave

News

razor blade

Physics

We just figured out why shaving soft hair blunts steel razor blades

Cutting soft materials like hair can blunt even the sharpest blades surprisingly quickly, and now we know why – offering clues to designing longer-lasting razors

News

Video

The future of air travel in a warmer world

Video

Physics

Half of Nobel prizes in science go to just five research fields

News

Space

The End of Everything review: A rollicking tour of the wildest physics

Culture

Space

Black holes are hiding movies of the universe in their glowing rings

Features