This podcast features an astrobiologist who has identified similar radio signals
Read article: The Wow! signal: did a telescope in Ohio receive an extraterrestrial communication in 1977?
Margaret Harris reviews It’s a Gas: the Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World by Mark Miodownik
Read article: A breezy tour of what gaseous materials do for us
Claudia de Rham and Ian Walmsley pay tribute to the contributions of the great theorist Abdus Salam
Read article: Abdus Salam: honouring the first Muslim Nobel-prize-winning scientist
Philip Ball reviews Farm Hall by Katherine Moar at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, which runs until 31 August 2024
Read article: Heisenberg gets ‘let off the hook’ in new historical drama based on the Farm Hall transcripts
Jim Baggott reviews Escape from Shadow Physics: the Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory by Adam Forrest Kay
Read article: Paradigm shifts: positivism, realism and the fight against apathy in the quantum revolution
Researchers have placed tighter constraints on the age of the Kyrenia Ship that sank off the coast of Cyprus in the 3rd century BCE
Read article: Revised calibration curve improves radiocarbon dating of ancient Kyrenia shipwreck
Robert P Crease meets Michael Dubno, who is trying to solve the mystery of the ancient Antikythera mechanical device
Read article: Could the answer to the Antikythera astronomical device emerge from a Manhattan basement?
Giulia Pancheri describes the extraordinary life of the physicist Bruno Touschek
Read article: Bruno Touschek: the physicist who escaped the Nazi Holocaust to build particle colliders
Philip Ball reviews Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement by Jim Baggott and John L Heilbron
Read article: Entangled entities: Bohr, Einstein and the battle over quantum fundamentals
1915 experiment established the connection between magnetism and angular momentum
Read article: Einstein’s only experiment is found in French museum
