February 2013
January 2013
- The real cost of the Death Star: Mr Obama, it can be yours in just 15 years!
- Physics in brief: What is Schrödinger’s Cat?
December 2012
- How to win at Monopoly: how Game Theory shapes your family games
- Santa Claus is coming to town and it is going to cost him £40m this year!
- Nuclear Power: What is it and why is it important. (Fusion)
- Nuclear Power: What is it and why is it important? (Fission)
- Matter and Antimatter: Why hasn’t the whole universe exploded?
November 2012
October 2012
- Spacetime, Extra Dimensions and a TARDIS: Is it possible for an box to be bigger on the inside?
- Let there be light
- The Maths of Pokemon: a Guest Post on the “Perfect Capture”
- Pursuit and Evasion: the Maths of Cops and Robbers
- Curiosity, space exploration, and is there life on Mars?
September 2012
- Dark Matter: What is it, how do we know it exists, and how will we find it?
- What is the abc conjecture? And why does its recent proof matter?
- What is Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula? A mathematical magic trick, semantics and meaning…
August 2012
- Your Questions: “What is Quantum Physics?”, jumping on an escalator and “Is time travel possible?”
- Maths of the Medals Table: Will the London Olympics “Inspire a Generation”?
- The Physics of Field Athletics: Discus, Frisbees and Airplanes.
- Maths of the Heptathlon: What the Olympics would have been like with our scoring system.
July 2012
- The Physics of Diving: Tom Daley and Angular Velocity
- The Physics (And Maths) of Soccer: Offsides, Angles and Backspin
- The Higgs: Why do we need it, why were we looking for it in the first place and what do we do now?
- The Higgs: What is it, what does it do and have we found it?
June 2012
- The Physics of Field Athletics: Hammer Throw, Angular Momentum and what if everyone in the world spun around at the same time?
- Maths of the Heptathlon: Why the scoring system is flawed
- What is the Drake Equation? (Guest post from B.C.)
May 2012
- The Physics of Field Athletics: Why do the Shot, the Javelin, the Discus and the Hammer fly differently?
- The Physics of Gymnastics: Vaulting and Newton’s Laws of Motion
- The Physics Of Cycling: Why Does A Velodrome’s Sides Need To Be Banked?
- The Physics of Rugby: Forward Passes and Relativity
April 2012
- The Physics of Soccer: How does ‘Curl’ work?
- The Physics of Cricket: What is ‘Swing Bowling’?
- Untitled – [yes, that's the title] (Guest post from TheCompBlog)
- What is the Strong Force?
- What is φ, the ‘Golden Ratio’
March 2012
- What is the Lifetime of a Star?
- What is the Theory of Everything? (Part 2): String Theory
- What Are Superconductors?
- Artificial Intelligence Composers: Can computers write music?
February 2012
- What is the Theory of Everything? (Part 1)
- What Are Imaginary Numbers?
- What is Gravity? (2/2)
- What is Harmony?