Wen-fai Fong talks to Rob Lea about shaping the future of astronomy
Read article: ‘I see a piece of myself in every student that I’ve mentored, and we motivate each other’ – Wen-fai Fong on supporting the next generation of astronomers
Tell-tale signs of rotation show up in redshifted light from distant galaxy JD1
Read article: Galactic remnant of the universe’s ‘dark ages’ is rotating, say astronomers
Differing values of the Hubble constant might be reconciled via the dark sector
Read article: Mirror world of dark particles could explain cosmic anomaly
Shaken optical lattice undergoes discontinuous phase transition
Read article: Ultracold atoms move closer to simulating the early universe
Imaging the earliest galaxies and observing the life cycle of others are high on the James Webb Space Telescope’s to-do list, as Keith Cooper explains
Read article: The ten-billion-dollar gamble: How the JWST will see deep into the universe’s past
In this podcast we meet a nanophotonics expert and a cosmologist
Read article: Probing the origins of the universe, using plasmonic tweezers to manipulate tiny objects
In this podcast the conversation runs from quantum fundamentals to the practicalities of powering the future
Read article: Pondering cosmic mysteries with Paul Davies, tandem solar cells could soon be on your roof
Laura Hiscott reviews What’s Eating the Universe and Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
Read article: An inventory of cosmological mysteries
Prediction made by the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking 40 years ago receives observational support
Read article: LIGO gravitational-wave signal backs up Hawking’s area theorem
New research suggests that filaments of matter connecting one galaxy to another may be spinning
Read article: Galactic ‘bridges’ could be the largest rotating structures ever discovered
