There’s a scientific reason why Twisters is set in the US Great Plains rather than Argentina, and it has to do with the Gulf of Mexico
Read article: Why North America has a ‘tornado alley’ and South America doesn’t
Matin Durrani reviews Aperiodic – an art-science performance from South West Dance Theatre
Read article: Aperiodicity: the dance event bringing non-repeating patterns to life
Colin White recounts a trip that took him from a Somerset hilltop to the heart of the Milky Way
Read article: An evening of landscape astrophotography
Rapid progress being made in development of nuclear clock
Read article: Second team uses laser to excite thorium-229 nuclear transition
Researchers at Cornell University have created a prototype urine collection and filtration system
Read article: Spacesuit backpack allows astronauts to drink their own urine
Symbiotic relationship is explored by physicists
Read article: Clams and algae collaborate to harvest sunlight very efficiently
Given a full bowl of pistachios, what size container do you need for the leftover shells?
Read article: Can you solve this pistachio packing problem?
LEGO has teamed up with the European Space Agency to create the bricks using material from a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite
Read article: LEGO creates ‘space bricks’ made from meteorite dust
Last week’s Quantum 2.0 conference laid out possible complementary approaches to the field’s biggest challenge
Read article: How to get the errors out of quantum computing
A panel discussion about quantum technologies in low and middle-income countries offers perspectives on how to overcome barriers to participation
Read article: Bringing the second quantum revolution to the rest of the world
