Science

Find the building blocks of nature within a single, humble snowflake

4 minutes

Why the golden age of total solar eclipses is already behind us

5 minutes

A song of ice, fire and jelly – exploring the physics and history of the trumpet

9 minutes

We are not empty

The concept of the atomic void is one of the most repeated mistakes in popular science. Molecules are packed with stuff

Mario Barbatti

A dreamy tribute to the music of Brian Eno, rendered in paint, soap and water

2 minutes

Why does the Sun occasionally flash green as it eclipses the horizon?

7 minutes

There’s a striking link between quantum and astronomic scales. What could it mean?

5 minutes

Untangling entanglement

Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our simple, four-step explanation (no magic needed)

Huw Price & Ken Wharton

The key to geckos’ unrivalled climbing skills isn’t sticky feet. It’s subatomic

4 minutes

Time is an object

Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories

Sara Walker & Lee Cronin

All is One

The ancient philosophy of monism and the physics of quantum entanglement agree: all that exists is one unified whole

Heinrich Päs

What are you really seeing when you see magnificent images of space?

5 minutes

Machina mundi

How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces

Henrik Lagerlund & Sylvain Roudaut

Why aren’t our everyday lives as ‘spooky’ as the quantum world?

7 minutes

Burning ice, metal clouds, gemstone rain – tour the strangest known exoplanets

31 minutes

The tangled tale of how physicists built a groundbreaking wormhole in a lab

17 minutes

There’s no one way for an insect to fly, but they’re all amazing in close up and slo-mo

7 minutes

Raw solar-storm footage is the punk-rock antidote to sleek James Webb imagery

6 minutes

An interstellar voyage explores the ‘paradox’ of twins separated by light years

6 minutes

Imaginary numbers are real

These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Spectacular fractal patterns emerge when electricity meets a wooden surface

4 minutes