Read article: NASA’s Stardust mission snares first dust from beyond the solar system
Analysis begins on seven particles that could be of interstellar origin
Read article: Nearby galaxy harbours rarest type of black hole
M82's black hole is 400 times the Sun's mass
Read article: Runaway couples create lonely supernovae
Calcium-rich explosions involve ejected binary stars
Read article: What if a solar super-storm hit?
Ashley Dale examines the devastating impact that a solar super-storm could have on life on Earth
Read article: Magnetic erosion could explain heavyweight Mercury’s density
New work could help solve 50-year-old puzzle
The August 2014 issue of Physics World is now out
Read article: New correction to speed of light could explain SN1987 neutrino burst
Gravitational effect on virtual particles violates equivalence principle
Read article: The science of Shakespeare and his plays
Books about Shakespearian science and how to rebuild a scientific civilization after an apocalypse, plus a new take on “Powers of Ten”, reviewed by Tushna Commissariat and Margaret Harri...
Read article: Couple emerges from trio of supermassive black holes
Tightly orbiting pair could create detectable gravitational waves
Read article: Lasers ignite ‘supernovae’ in the lab
Experiment studies effects of turbulence on powerful magnetic fields
