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Podcast

What is time: The podcast

This podcast featuring Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University and Director of BEYOND: Centre for Fundamental Concepts in Science, explores this difficult question and accompanies our What is time article.

Article

coiled pasta

Dive deeper into the loop soup

Fields Medallist Wendelin Werner loves Brownian loop soups. In the second part of this article, we learn more about why they matter so much.

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A plate of spagetti hoops

Dive into the loop soup!

Fields Medallist Wendelin Werner loves Brownian loop soups. We explore what they are, why he finds them so "natural", and how they are linked to the physics of elementary particles.

Article

Apple falling into an outstretched hand

Maths in a minute: Newton's law of universal gravitation

A law of nature that was reportedly inspired by an apple falling from a tree.

Article

Maths in a minute: Escape velocity

Would you like to get away from Earth? Here's how fast you would need to go.

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Maths in a minute: Dark matter

Physicists believe that around 82% of all the matter in the Universe is invisible dark matter. But if it's invisible how do they know it's there?

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Maths in a minute: Gravitational waves

A quick introduction to one of the greatest discoveries of the century.

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Maths in a minute: Black holes

A quick introduction to the monsters that lurk at the centre of each galaxy.

News story

LIGO detects a new gravitational wave

The newly observed ripple in spacetime will help us unlock some of the secrets of the Universe.

News story

Gravitational vortex sheds light on black holes

Astronomers have explained a strange effect observed in the vicinity of black holes.

Article

Maths in a minute: n-body problems

Why too many bodies present a problem.

Article

Symmetry making and symmetry breaking

A closer look at the power of symmetry in physics.