Archives for: Physics Week

It maybe part of everyday life, but in fact nobody knows what time is, or how it works. Time seems to be...

Most of the universe is just emptiness - there is nothing there at all. It's dark. That's space. But within...

Like light, sound travels through the air in waves, but unlike light, sound is not made of lots of tiny...

Forces are pretty clever – they hold things together and push them apart and make things move or stop. You...

Whilst magnetism may not be a fundamental force, its not useless. Magnetism is an integral part of...

Just think about where you might find liquids in your house. There are liquids found in the tap, fruit...

Light controls what the world looks like. Plants use its energy to help them grow. The future’s...

When molecules of any kind of atoms get more energy in them than they had before, they move faster, and we...

Gravity is a bit of a mystical mover and shaker, and a universal fixer. It holds the Earth together,...

Atoms are made of even smaller particles called protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons and neutrons are...