Supersymmetry

Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

Amazing answers to your curious questions

It’s difficult to know for sure how many electrons are in the Universe. British physicist Arthur Eddington (1882–1944) came up with a number in 1938, now known as the ‘Eddington number’. Eddington’s c

Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b