To infinity, beyond and back again
Space-travel film Interstellar awes our reviewer Tushna Commissariat with an epic plot and breath-taking effects, but what about the science?
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Book of the Year 2014
Which book received the highest honours in our list of the year's best popular-physics titles?
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Tabletop experiment could detect gravitational waves
Tiny device could beat LIGO to detecting ripples in space–time, say physicists
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Black-hole analogue works like a laser
Sound is amplified between two "event horizons" in a Bose–Einstein condensate
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In search of gravitational waves
Using pulsar signals to search for these elusive waves
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Hunting gravitational waves using pulsars
Louise Mayor reports on the search for these ripples in space–time
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BICEP2 gravitational wave result bites the dust thanks to new Planck data
Planck and BICEP2 to carry out a joint analysis of data for definitive answer
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Divergent quasars fall in line
Diverse properties of cosmic behemoths based on only two parameters
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Web life: Super Planet Crash
A simple game based on orbital dynamics is a "gateway drug" for learning more about exoplanet science
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Nearby galaxy harbours rarest type of black hole
M82's black hole is 400 times the Sun's mass
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