Physics

In 1963, Erasto Mpemba was freezing ice cream mix, during a school experiment in Tanzania; and, seeming to defy common sense, he noticed that warm mix solidified far faster than colder mix when placed in a freezer...Continue Reading 

If you have ever been skating you will have felt, perhaps painfully, that ice is slippery. However, there is a common misconception that ice is inherently slippery. This is not true; in fact, ice is not always slippery and nor indeed is any other material...Continue Reading 

New, high-resolution images from the James Webb Space Telescope opened a new era of discovery leading to exotic yet exciting findings...Continue Reading

On December 13th, 2022, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the home of the National Ignition Facility, announced that they have achieved a net power gain from fusion...Continue Reading 

The heliocentric model of the solar system is that in which the sun, orbited by the eight planets, is situated at the centre of our solar system. Despite being the conventionally accepted model of the solar system in the modern world, it has had a problematic and, to be frank, an incredibly rocky history...Continue Reading