Features
Thought provoking articles from physics.org, putting a different spin on physics.
Chris Morris goes to CERN
Satirist Chris Morris joined particle physicist Brian Cox on a recent visit to the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest physics experiment ever. You can hear what happened during the visit at CERN podcast.
SciCast Physics
The winners of SciCast 2008, the mini-science-movie-making competition, have been announced.
How didgeridoos work
The didgeridoo creates a sound much like Marmite – you either love it, or hate it. But what’s the secret behind that unique drone?
The Science of His Dark Materials
Did you know that many of the fantastical ideas from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy have a basis in real science?
Enigma of the singing dunes
When Marco Polo encountered the weird and wonderful noises made by sand dunes, he attributed them to evil spirits. 700 years later, scientists still don’t completely understand the cause of this eerie phenomenon...
Secret of spider-man suit revealed
Physicists have found the formula for a
"spider-man" suit, drawing inspiration from the amazing wall-clinging ability of geckos, and the ingenious properties of velcro.
CERN, the biggest experiment ever
100 metres underground on the Swiss-French border is a 27km tunnel, built by the European physics community to probe fundamental properties of the universe.
