Poetry & particle physics

Has anyone else been following the BBC’s awesome Atom programme these past few weeks? OK, I know it conforms to the formula of similar TV Science shows: sweeping panoramas of Earth and Space, ghosted equations floating across the screen and a casually dressed...

Dark matter

It is a fascinating concept: a century old model of the universe and its origins is all in place, except that it requires something that doesn’t exist – dark matter.We all know that most of the universe is space. Atoms are full of it (or rather, empty of...