Physics

How fast does Santa actually have to travel to get presents to the kids of the world? Physics has some of the answers – but the rest is pure magic

A major obstacle to quantum computing has been overcome by modifying a common industrial method to create large arrays of single atoms in a silicon chip

To mark International Women’s Day, a chemist and a physicist discuss the challenges of careers in male-dominated fields and the women who inspire them

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let’s recognise that science has an image problem and fix it

A new diamond voltage imaging microscope will give us more insight into the neural micro-circuitry that runs our brains

A dark matter laboratory at the bottom of a gold mine in rural Victoria could make one of the biggest scientific discoveries ever – proving the existence of dark matter

Time crystals are mysterious configurations of particles that are perpetually switching and quantum computers can now be used to examine them

The search for dark matter may need a detector larger than we can build on Earth, but it could be that a neutron star can do the job

Around 95 per cent of the universe is still a mystery with unknown exotic particles and new forces awaiting discovery

From watching the heavens to discovering waves of light, relativity and entropy, understanding the nature of time has been a major human endeavour