Challenges of cosmic proportion
A round-up of modern physics
Read article: Finding the flaw in falsifiability
Finding the flaw in falsifiability
Science is more complex than Karl Popper thought
Read article: Manufacturing firsts in physics
Manufacturing firsts in physics
The first collisions at accelerators tend to be stage managed
Read article: Love on the edge of the universe
Love on the edge of the universe
In October 1998 Janna Levin arrived to start a postdoc at Sussex University’s Astronomy Centre. She had just said good-bye to her beloved California, swapping the sun of Berkeley for the grey sk...
Read article: What does energy really mean?
What does energy really mean?
The origin and historical development of the word "energy"
Read article: This is your philosophy
This is your philosophy
Physicists thinking philosophically: the results of our survey
Read article: Are physicists useful?
Are physicists useful?
“But the greatest error of all is mistaking the ultimate end of knowledge. For some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety...
Read article: What’s your philosophy?
What’s your philosophy?
In his recent book Faith, Science and Understanding, the physicist-turned-Anglican priest John Polkinghorne makes the claim that, in practice at least, “almost all scientists” are, philoso...
Read article: Spotting craziness in cloud-cuckoo-land
Spotting craziness in cloud-cuckoo-land
Few things in life are utterly black or white. Even scientific ideas come in shades of “truth”, which is arrived at differently in different kinds of science. There are other gradations to...
Read article: Do we need nuclear power?
Do we need nuclear power?
Does the world needs nuclear power? Peter Hodgson and Dennis Anderson take up the debate
