New theory could finally make ‘quantum gravity’ a reality... and prove einstein wrong

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

Modern science is inextricably linked to mathematics. I’m not just referring to numbers here – for example numerical measurements of things like time, speed and energy – although that’s an important p

Flicking through the pages of BBC Sky at Night Magazine each month, you’d be forgiven for thinking astronomers have black holes pinned down. Whether it’s the dramatic imaging of black hole shadows by

Our eyes paint such vivid portraits of the world around us that it’s easy to forget how much of our surroundings go unseen. Wi-Fi signals pinging this way and that, subatomic particles and radiation z

Time has occupied the greatest minds for centuries and we’re still none the wiser about its absolute nature. Although there’s nothing in physics that says time must flow in a certain direction, nor pr

It’s one of the most basic concepts in physics, governing the behaviour of everything from subatomic particles to galaxies