McCabism

This is one of my favourite diagrams. Produced by the virtuoso Swedish cosmologist, Max Tegmark , it displays part of the space of all mathe...

There's a nice article in this week's New Scientist on the imminent replacement of incandescent light bulbs by compact fluorescent l...

My fellow time-lord returns to BBC1 tomorrow evening, although sadly, Billie Piper will no longer be his assistant. In fact, I thought the c...

The first man-made nuclear reaction was produced by Cockroft and Walton in 1929, when the stable isotope, Lithium-7, was bombarded by accele...

Just before I hit my 18th birthday, I received a letter from John Redwood, my then-local MP, inviting me to join the Young Conservatives for...

Although money cannot be identified with any of its physical tokens , the curiosity is that money can be created and destroyed via the creat...

As the Astronomer Patrick Moore once said, "If you were to stand on the surface of Venus, you would be simultaneously fried, poisoned, ...

As demonstrated here by 1996 Formula One World Champion, Damon Hill, if you've got lots of grey hairs, it's a good idea to keep them...

The weather here has been gorgeous the past couple of days, warm and sunny, with just a hint of cool. The sort of cool you get when a mouse ...

A Norwegian extreme-sports 'dude', called Arild, skis down the 100 metre escalator at The Angel underground station in North London:

The answer is no, but there are some subtle concepts here. Relativity says that, in a vacuum, nothing can locally move faster than the speed...