Blast on BBC 4
Want to watch BLAST take off? BBC 4 is due to air the eponymous astrophysics documentary later this week...
And the survey says…
The results of a special readers' survey marking Physics World's 20th anniversary are now in...
Little Boy was a little girl
I was left with the chilling thought that just about anyone with about 60 kilograms of uranium-235 could build a bomb like Little Boy...
A one-way street called ‘Physics+Biology’
I've just spent the last couple of days in Cambridge for the opening of the new Physics of Medicine Institute
'In Our Time' tackles the physics of time
The BBC's Melvyn Bragg is one of those rare intellectuals who seems completely at ease as a broadcaster...
Physics exams go from the lab to the real world
If you are feeling smug because you sat your exam in 1957, you may have forgotten...
Can science help solve the economic crisis?
Would I trust my economic well being to a "group of good scientists"?...
Supermassive blooper found at the BBC
I turned on the radio this morning to be told that astronomers have "found" a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way...
Do religion and nanotechnology mix?
No, at least according to a paper published yesterday...
BLAST takes off
Things are not going well for the astrophysics “balloonatics” at the bottom of the world. After weeks spent waiting for decent weather, their Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submilimeter ...
