Do you know what the hell is the Schwarzschild radius? I didn’t have a clue, but now I know that if you compress Earth to an 8mm radius ball, you will get a black hole. My fascination didn’t stop ...

The people at the University of Nottingham certainly have a way with science videos. Not only have they provided the world with videos about every element of the Periodic Table, but they also have an ...

As one of the presenters of the hugely successful Sixty Symbols series of YouTube science videos, Philip Moriarty describes his experiences in front of the camera and how they have transformed his ...

Nothing can travel faster than light. This is an innate law of the universe which can never be broken. But if you're not careful when looking through a telescope, you could be fooled into thinking ...

A while back, Sixty Symbols asked a bunch of physicists what they thought would happen if you were to place your hand in the particle beam at the LHC and… none of them knew. Now they’ve done some ...

My pal Amanda Bauer—aka Astropixie—has been posting a great series of short videos called Sixty Symbols, where scientists discuss the meanings of a given symbol in science, and the story behind them.