physics

Stuck at home, she created a new state of matter

Kicked off campus during the pandemic, Giulia Semeghini and her team members came up with a quantum spin liquid

4 years ago

Dark matter, that galactic drag

Invisible, nearly undetectable, it still manages to slow down the movement of metal-heavy stars

5 years ago

How to make a perfect free throw

Angle, launch speed, aim point and muscle memory - all as controlled as in a dance movement - are the…

8 years ago

What Stephen Hawking did

Though confined to a wheelchair, the scientist's mind ranged restlessly across the universe, and broke original ground with his work…

8 years ago

‘A manifestation of amazing willpower’

Cosmologist and colleague Martin Rees looks back at the life of Stephen Hawking - one of spectacular success against all…

8 years ago