I have decided that my YouTube channel lacks a history part because there is so much we can learn from the history of science. So, today I w...

The singing climate scientist is back, enjoy!

Last week, we spoke about emergence , this week, we will speak about the opposite: Reductionism. Reductionism, loosely speaking, is the idea...

The word “emerging” is often used colloquially to mean something like “giving rise to” or “becoming apparent”. But emerging, emergent, and e...

I have noticed that each time I talk or write about dark energy or dark matter, I get a lot of comments from people saying, oh that stuff do...

There are quite a number of mathematical theorems that prove the power of mathematics has its limits. But how relevant are these theorems fo...

I keep getting requests from people that I comment on the coronavirus pandemic, disease models, or measures taken to contain and mitigate th...

Just a brief note that Tim and I have an essay up at Nautilus How to Make Sense of Quantum Physics Superdeterminism, a long-abandoned ide...

I was sick last week and lost like 10 pounds in 3 days, which brings up the question, what is weight? Weight is actually the force that a...

I spoke with Professor Subir Sarkar from the University of Oxford about his claim that dark energy might not exist and the so-called Hubble-...

[Image: Scott McLeod/Flickr ] 14 years ago, I was a postdoc in Santa Barbara, in a tiny corner office where the windows wouldn't ope...

Quanta Magazine has an article by Phillip Ball titled “ Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab” . It’s ab...

Today I have a count-down of the 10 most important effects in physics that you should all know about. 10. The Doppler Effect The Dopp...

On my recent visit to Great Britain (the first one post-Brexit) I had the pleasure of talking to Dorothy Bishop. Bishop is Professor of Psyc...

[This is the second part of Tim’s guest contribution. The first part is  here . ] In this second part of my guest post, I want to disc...

I never cease to be shocked – shocked! – how many scientists don’t know how science works and, worse, don’t seem to care about it. Most o...

I caught a cold and didn't come around to record a new physics video this week. Instead I finished a song that I wrote some weeks ago. E...

[Tim Palmer is a Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics at the University of Oxford, UK. He is only half as crazy as it seems.]...

Molecules are made of atoms. Atomic nuclei are made of neutrons and protons. And the neutrons and protons are made of quarks and gluons. Man...