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
The long-standing physics problem is being tackled with renewed vigour by today’s cosmologists. Rob Lea investigates
Read article: A new generation takes on the cosmological constant
Philip Ball reviews Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
Read article: Rudiments of reality
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Big data meets Beethoven’s metronome, astronomy gets a badass new acronym
David Appell reviews The Little Book of Cosmology by Lyman Page
Read article: Little book, big science
Tiny features of a ‘Big Bounce’ led to universe-size anomalies today
Read article: Microwave anomalies strengthen the case for loop quantum cosmology, say physicists
Debates over the shape of the Earth and the rate of the universe's expansion have a very different feel
Read article: A flat-Earth fight, an inconsistent Hubble constant, and carbon atoms at a graphene ‘watering hole’
Explore the latest issue of your favourite physics magazine
Read article: Hubble trouble, fighting ‘flat-Earthers’ and blue lasers for batteries: the July 2020 edition of Physics World is now out
Hybrid neutron stars could contain quark-matter cores
Read article: Gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers could reveal quark-gluon plasma
