Life’s other mystery: Why biology’s building blocks are so lop-sided
Most molecules exist in mirror-image forms, and yet life prefers one over the other. How…
Physics
Neutrinos may explain why we don’t live in an antimatter universe
By Leah Crane A conceptual image of neutrinosMehau Kulyk/Science Photo Library We are getting closer…
We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality…
Baffling 500-page ABC maths proof to be published after eight-year row
By Donna Lu It’s not this simpleYAY Media AS/Alamy After a saga eight years in…
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The unsung discoverer of star chemistry
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that hydrogen dominates our universe, finally gets the recognition she deserves…
We now know what causes wine ‘legs’ to drip down inside a glass
By Layal Liverpool Wine ‘legs’ are caused by a shockwave in your wineglassGilaxia/Getty Images The…
Even a computer the size of the universe can’t predict everything
A black hole and a jet of hot gasNASA/JPL-Caltech Fundamental limits on the smallest possible…
We still don’t understand a basic fact about the universe
Field notes from space-time | Our measurements of the Hubble constant can’t seem to come…
How a new twist on quantum theory could solve its biggest mystery
The “wave function collapse” transforms vague clouds of quantum possibilities into the physical reality we…
Jim Al-Khalili’s The World According to Physics is a thrilling ride
A new book from Jim Al-Khalili makes cutting-edge physics easily understandable and makes it clear…