Physics

From classroom to low orbit: Students at a school in Croydon create - and launch - a satellite into space.

A multi-billion pound project to build a nuclear power station could get the go-ahead on Wednesday.

The BBC hears of the trials and tribulations of moving a world-famous research centre.

For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register. Cutting-edge techniques have revealed it for the first time.

When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the Universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties.

New research could force a fundamental rethink of the nature of space and time.

Cause is usually followed by effect, but in the quantum world, time's sequencing is not so straightforward.

Why saying who was first to split the atom is almost as hard as mastering atomic theory.