Fusion power might be 30 years away but we will reap its benefits well before
The Guardian view on the beauty of numbers: new ways of seeing reality
The science behind the viral tinfoil frizz trick on TikTok
Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’
July 2024
‘A huge opportunity’: Quantum leap for UK as tech industry receives £100m boost
Science secretary backs five quantum technology hubs in push for UK to transform healthcare and industry
Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD to have a family
‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut
His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama
June 2024
‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS
Subatomic instrument will be able to accurately pinpoint locations under ground and under water where satellite signals cannot reach
Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
Can you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?
A curious cup and some wacky wheels
‘We’re trying to find the shape of space’: scientists wonder if the universe is like a doughnut
Rather than stretching to infinity and beyond, the universe may have a topology that can eventually be mapped
April 2024
Other lives
Brian Haywood obituary
Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times mass of sun
The big idea
The big idea: are we about to discover a new force of nature?
World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?
Science Weekly
Remembering physicist Peter Higgs – podcast
Peter Higgs obituary
Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94