Matin Durrani winces at the time he met Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin
Read article: Robert Laughlin: the Nobel interview that became an impromptu press conference
Matin Durrani recounts a one-sided interview with Steven Weinberg
Read article: Steven Weinberg: the Nobel laureate who liked nuts
Researchers have looked at how tea scum breaks apart when stirred
Read article: Physicists reveal the mechanics of tea scum
Everesting involves a cyclist riding up and down a given hill multiple times until the ascent totals the elevation of Mount Everest – or 8848 m
Read article: The physics of cycling’s ‘Everesting’ challenge revealed
Find out more about designs for a muon collider and why gender diversity in big science needs recognition
Read article: The free-to-read Physics World Big Science Briefing 2024 is out now
The image captures the progression of Baily’s beads, which are only visible when the Moon either enters or exits an eclipse
Read article: Annular eclipse photograph bags Royal Observatory Greenwich prize
The spacecraft had a clear view of Mercury’s south pole for the first time during a recent flyby
Read article: BepiColombo takes its best images yet of Mercury’s peppered landscape
A paper cut “sweet spot” just happens to be close to the thickness of paper in print magazines
Read article: Researchers cut to the chase on the physics of paper cuts
Announcement makes us pine for the Black Hills
Read article: LUX-ZEPLIN ‘digs deeper’ for dark-matter WIMPs
Lunar time standard would avoid pitfalls of time dilation
Read article: Atomic clocks on the Moon could create ‘lunar positioning system’
