Matin Durrani reviews If Only I Could Hibernate – a film about a boy from a hard-up family trying to enter a physics competition
Read article: If Only I Could Hibernate: Mongolian movie follows a teenager entering a physics olympiad
Try our fiendish quantum-physics cryptic word search, created by Ian Randall
Read article: Can you solve this quantum cryptic word search?
1915 experiment established the connection between magnetism and angular momentum
Read article: Einstein’s only experiment is found in French museum
Cicadas are voracious eaters, which results in a lot of urination
Read article: Researchers reveal the fluid dynamics behind cicadas’ ‘unique’ urination
Wave carried surfers by as we stood on a rainy riverbank
Read article: Surf’s up: Physics World admires the famous Severn bore
Scientists have carried out X-ray studies on the iconic violin that was crafted in 1743
Read article: Rhapsody as European synchrotron examines Niccolò Paganini’s violin
Mysterious samples from the ocean floor are not associated with 2014 meteor, study suggests
Read article: Seismic signal that pointed to alien technology was actually a passing truck
Physicists in Austria reveal that solvents in the ink are behind the effect
Read article: Mystery of why inkjet-printed paper curls finally solved
More than 13,000 specimens have been scanned with computed tomography for the openVertebrate project
Read article: Spectacular scans of thousands of vertebrate specimens released
The technique involves mixing colourful inks with alcohol and applying it to a surface coated with a layer of acrylic paint
Read article: The physics behind ‘fractal painting’ revealed
