Balancing act The two systems of measurement – imperial and metric – are often used together in UK shops. (Courtesy: iStock/Paolo Paradiso) When I was at primary school in the 1960s, measurements were ...

A single equation can describe how fluids flow across a wide range of length scales, from ocean currents to swimming algae. The difference merely lies in the Reynolds number, says Julia Yeomans. As ...

The big science-y news of last week was the vote to officially redefine of the kilogram-- see the stories in Physics World and Physics Today for more detail--after decades of work by physicists on ...

The W boson is heftier than anyone expected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ultraprecise measurement of the mass of a ...

A new measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson appears to defy the standard model of particle physics, our current understanding of how the basic building blocks of the universe ...

Cris Brack is a Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy. He does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, ...

If you wanted to understand how our Universe operates, you'd have to examine it at a fundamental level. Macroscopic objects are made up of particles, which can only themselves be detected by going to ...

The flow of time isn’t as consistent as we might think – gravity slows it down, so clocks on the surface of Earth tick slower than those in space. Now researchers have measured time passing at ...