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Physics

October 2023

  • Black hole discovered<br>Undated handout artist impression of a black hole drifting through the Milky Way galaxy. An ultramassive black hole around 33 billion times the mass of the Sun has been discovered by astronomers in the UK. Scientists from Durham University said the gargantuan black hole is one of the biggest ever found. Issue date: Friday June 10, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE BlackHole. Photo credit should read: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger/N. Bartmann/Durham University/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

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    Black holes, but backwards: unlocking the mysteries of white holes – podcast

  • Plumber repairing cistern wearing beige shorts

    Scientists create world’s most water-resistant surface

  • Evelyn Fox Keller<br>Professor Fox Keller is both a scientist and social commentator who graduated from Harvard's Department of Physics in 1963 with a degree in theoretical physics and molecular biology. She has has authored, co-authored and edited 10 books and more than 70 articles, many of them dealing with the issue of gender and science. Here she is photographed at Harvard University where she is a visiting professor. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Evelyn Fox Keller obituary

  • Martin Rees

    Some Nobel winners are great intellects, others are lucky. There’s more to science than these prizes

    Martin Rees

  • Science Weekly
    All the news and science from the Nobel Prizes – podcast

  • Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on electrons

  • The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut review – genius and madness in the shadow of the atomic bomb

September 2023

  • An illustration showing blue spherical particles within a yellow cylindrical pathway surrounded by the outline of a circular frame

    Scientists find antimatter is subject to gravity

  • Giorgio Parisi

    Is it TikTok or global crisis? How the world lost its trust in scientists like me

    Giorgio Parisi
  • Prof John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov

    ‘Theory of all matter’ physicists among 2023 Breakthrough prize winners

  • Illustration by Observer Design showing a temperature dial with electric discharges flaring out of it

    There’s no room-temperature superconductor yet, but the quest continues

August 2023

  • A dust storm at sunset in the Arizona desert.

    The long read
    Empire of dust: what the tiniest specks reveal about the world

  • Avi Loeb in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Astrophysicist Avi Loeb: ‘UFOs should be the subject of mainstream inquiry. Science must bring clarity’

  • Pyrex graduated measuring jug<br>F48CK9 Pyrex graduated measuring jug

    Want to weigh your hands? Here’s how to do it

  • sarafina el-badry nance poses in a nasa jumpsuit

    Astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance: ‘I’ll probably always live with impostor syndrome’

  • Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature

  • Other lives
    Bob Reid obituary

  • Scientists seek out source of dark matter in Yorkshire

  • Science Weekly
    Summer picks: could the multiverse be real? – podcast

July 2023

  • Cillian Murphy in a scene from Oppenheimer

    Where are the ‘violet hues’ and ‘bath of heat’? Australian scientists review what Oppenheimer gets wrong

    One nuclear expert says the film is unrealistic because it portrays quantum mechanics as ‘hard’
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