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Physics

May 2026

  • Helen Pilcher

    The hill I will die on
    The hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right?

    Helen Pilcher
    Project Hail Mary, Jurassic Park: from dino-mosquitoes to a spaceship’s roar, pointless mistakes on the scientific details make me wince, says science writer Helen Pilcher
  • Hawking in glasses and a tweed jacket reclines in a wheelchair with his head tilted

    Stephen Hawking’s father worried his son ‘does not study much’, diaries reveal

    Exclusive: New biography uncovers Frank Hawking’s papers in which he lamented that his son had ‘little initiative’
  • A large console with dials on it in a room with a mural covering the far wall featuring a god-like figure and the sun

    Reaching for the stars: enduring symbols of Soviet science – in pictures

    The photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a scientific journey through space and time in a book on Soviet scientific institutes
    Gallery14

April 2026

  • Anne Hathaway and Alex Honnold speak onstage during the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

    Science Weekly
    Muons, massive waves and restored sight: the winners at the ‘Oscars of science’ – podcast

    Podcast16:19
  • Brian Cox

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Brian Cox: ‘We don’t know how powerful AI is going to become – it’s both exciting and potentially a problem’

March 2026

  • Blue glowing quantum force field with spiral patterns and elementary particles

    We need a credible plan for science funding in the UK

  • Brian Cox during his live tour in 2017.

    Brian Cox says UK physics funding cuts are ‘destruction of the future’

  • The lorry that transported the antimatter

    Science Weekly
    Transporting the most expensive and volatile substance on Earth – podcast

    Podcast15:48
  • Blue glowing quantum energy visualization with swirling spiral patterns in space

    Record investment in quantum computing talent

  • The big idea
    Is time a figment of our imaginations?

  • Sir Anthony Leggett obituary

  • Scientists discover heavier version of proton with upgraded detector

  • Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

February 2026

  • The sun glows orange while rising on a chilly morning in the countryside in Dunsden, Oxfordshire

    Weatherwatch
    A deafening nuclear fusion reactor: why you wouldn’t want to hear the sun

  • Two conjoined loves of ice body

    Mystery of snowman-shaped space objects cracked

  • Desmond McConnell

    Other lives
    Desmond McConnell obituary

  • Jon Butterworth

    These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world

    Jon Butterworth

  • Funding cuts will devastate the next generation of scientists

  • Beyond growth
    Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Do we need a new theory of evolution? – podcast

    Podcast40:36
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