Articles by subject: physics
- Poised on the edge: an interview with Lisa Randall (by Manjit Kumar, March/April 2012 )
- Lisa Randall is both a top research cosmologist and one of the best guides to the dizzying world of theoretical physics. Manjit Kumar collides with her
- Anything is possible (by Kitty Ferguson, January/February 2012 )
- Stephen Hawking’s childlike glee in overturning assumptions, especially his own, is what makes him such an iconic scientist, says his biographer Kitty Ferguson
- Moon dance (by John Gribbin, July/August 2011 )
- More than just a pretty face, our closest companion in space could be the reason we are here at all, argues John Gribbin
- Book review: The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene (by Marcus Chown, March/April 2011 )
- Brian Green's dizzying new book offers a window onto the cutting edge of theoretical physics. Marcus Chown goes in search of the multiverse
- Chown's Cosmos: Cosmic Accelerator (by Marcus Chown, March/April 2011 )
- Six hundred million light years away, the ‘active galaxy’ Cygnus A fires huge quantities of particles at unimaginable speeds, finds Marcus Chown
- Chown's Cosmos: Cloudy with a chance of hexagons (by Marcus Chown, November/December 2010 )
- Why is there a six-sided cloud on Saturn’s north pole? wonders Marcus Chown
- Material errors (by Mano Singham, July/August 2010 )
- In arguing that quantum physics challenges the materialist view of the world, Jay Lakhani gets his science wrong, says Mano Singham
- It's Immaterial (by Jay Lakhani, May/June 2010 )
- Hindu Council director Jay Lakhani is also a trained scientist. He believes science and religion meet at the level of the infinitely small
- The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition (by Marcus Chown, May/June 2009 )
- Marcus Chown learns how the Catholic Church silenced Galileo
- The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo (by James Randerson, January/February 2009 )
- James Randerson encounters a strange legend of physics
- The Sun and Moon Corrupted by Philip Ball (by Philip Womack, May/June 2008 )
- Philip Womack enjoys a popular scientist's debut novel
- Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku (by Bill Thompson, March/April 2008 )
- Bill Thompson finds Michio Kaku's science impossibly bad
- Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You by Marcus Chown (by Bill Thompson, November/December 2007 )
- Bill Thompson enjoys an introduction to quantum physics
- Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segrè (by Graham Farmelo, July/August 2007 )
- Graham Farmelo finds that even the greats of physics enjoyed larking about
- Bad vibrations (by AC Grayling, March/April 2007 )
- AC Grayling reports on the battle for the soul of a science
- The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies (by Peter Woit, September/October 2006 )
- Peter Woit reviews the latest book from astrophysicist Paul Davies
- God and the Modern Scientist (by Peter Landsberg, Summer 2001 )
- How can we understand anything? asks Pater Landsberg
- Science Studies (by Stuart Clarke, Summer 2001 )
- Mars comes with a full complement of scientific myths says Stuart Clarke
