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Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.

What do we know about our Universe? And could there be more than one?

Bob Wald tells us why probabilities are important in cosmology.

The Astronomer Royal examines the evolution of our Universe and the important role of the constants of nature in this filmed public talk.

Cosmologists gathered in the Netherlands last week to discuss a new view of the Universe. The Universe as seen by Planck was an international conference to discuss the recently released scientific results from the Planck satellite, including two particularly striking snapshots of the early Universe.

This podcast comes to you from a conference on the nature of time. We talk to philosophers of physics Jeremy Butterfield and David Wallace, as well as the eminent Roger Penrose about the puzzle time poses to physicists and what it has to do with the Big Bang and the second law of thermodynamics.

What's the mysterious stuff that makes up 70% of our Universe?

The mathematical maps in theoretical physics have been highly successful in guiding our understanding of the universe at the largest and smallest scales. Linking these two scales together is one of the golden goals of theoretical physics. But, at the very edges of our understanding of these fields, one of the most controversial areas of physics lies where these maps merge: the cosmological constant problem.

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded.

Cambridge celebrates 25 years since the first very early Universe workshop

A new mathematical model explores the time before the big bang

There might not be a Nobel Prize for mathematics, but maths is at the heart of the 2006 Nobel Prizes.