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Physics

July 2023

  • Elia Barbieri - Big Idea - The Guardian Saturday - 22nd July 2023 - The laws of physics will never explain the universe-01

    The big idea
    The big idea: Why the laws of physics will never explain the universe

    We should think of the cosmos as more like an animal than a machine
  • Prof Silke Weinfurtner in the Black Hole Laboratory standing next to written theory and on the right is the Superfluid Helium set up for the black hole simulator. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    Eureka! Scientists explore mysteries of black holes with hi-tech bathtub

    Nottingham University researchers are simulating black holes with a tiny vortex inside a bell jar of superfluid helium
  • Joan Krakover Hall and her husband Ted left the US for Cambridge in the 1960s

    Other lives
    Joan Krakover Hall obituary

    Other lives: Linguist and teacher who kept the secret of her husband’s wartime espionage for more than 50 years

June 2023

  • A visible-light image of the Abell 901/902 supercluster combined with a dark matter map. Photograph: Alamy

    Science Weekly
    Euclid: will the mission uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy?

    Ian Sample speaks to the cosmologist Dr Andrew Pontzen about the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission, which hopes to uncover more about two of the universe’s most baffling components: dark energy and dark matter. Pontzen explains what the probe will be looking for and how its findings will contribute to our understanding of the structure and evolution of the cosmos
  • Giorgio Parisi at the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, October 2021

    Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi: ‘There’s a lack of trust in science – we need to show how it’s done’

    The Italian physicist puts the fiendishly tricky theory of complex systems in terms of birds and bus rides, as his new book aims to make his branch of science accessible to all
  • John Naughton

    The networker
    China and physics may soon shatter our dreams of endless computing power

    John Naughton
    Silicon chip transistors are so small they are approaching their physical limits. And the firm that makes many of them may be somewhat hampered if Xi Jinping decides to invade Taiwan

May 2023

  • Illustration: Nathalie Lees/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysteries of the cosmos? – podcast

  • illustration: a female figure sitting atop a miniature planet gazing up at a purpley-blue night sky full of stars and planets. The planet she is sitting on resembles a covid virus

    The long read
    The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysteries of the cosmos?

March 2023

  • John Jefferson

    Other lives
    John Jefferson obituary

    Other lives: Theoretical physicist who overcame early disadvantage to enjoy a distinguished scientific career at Dera in Malvern
  • Professor Stephen Hawking author of bestseller 'A Brief History of Time', 'Black Holes' and 'Baby Universes and Other Essays' and most recently in 2001, 'The Universe in a Nutshell'. Since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University. 13/09/2005 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY (press button below or see details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution, Murdo Macleods repro fees apply.

    A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator

    Thomas Hertog worked with cosmologist on a new book after he shared his doubts about A Brief History of Time

    • Science Weekly
      Everything Everywhere All at Once: could the multiverse be real?

    • Other lives
      Heidy Mader obituary

    • Back to the father: the scientist who lost his dad – and resolved to travel to 1955 to save him

February 2023

  • John Harries in 1999 with the Haloe instrument that flew in orbit for almost 15 years on Nasa’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

    John Harries obituary

  • A study highlighted the Avengers film franchise, which depicts a stereotypical lone male genius, Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, played by Robert Downey Jr.

    Lazy movie stereotypes that put women off science

  • An artist impression, released November 2022 by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), of how it might look when a star approaches too close to a black hole and is squeezed by the intense gravitational pull.

    Dark energy could be created inside black holes, scientists claim

  • US secretary of state Antony Blinken, fourth left, meets with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, fourth right, at the Arctic Council ministerial summit in May 2021. Photo by: Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP

    Science Weekly
    How has the Russia-Ukraine war disrupted science? – podcast

January 2023

  • The Dark Energy Survey analysed the sky over six years from a mountain top in Chile

    ‘Less clumpy’ universe may suggest existence of mysterious forces

    Survey could mean there is a crucial component missing from so-called standard model of physics
  • Portrait shot of Prof Clare Burrage.

    Dark energy ‘chameleon trap’ wins £100,000 prize for Nottingham scientist

    Ingeniously simple lab experiment led by Prof Clare Burrage recognised by Blavatnik awards
  • A lightning bolt strikes over a popular neighbourhood of Bogota in 2022.

    Scientists steer lightning bolts with lasers for the first time

    Demo during heavy storms at top of a Swiss mountain involved firing powerful laser pulses at thunderclouds
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