‘Nothing will come of nothing,” King Lear says, but modern physics is even odder than that. The problem of the vacuum goes back more than 2,000 years and continues into the present. In “Void: The ...

Millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that nature abhors a vacuum, reasoning that objects would fly through truly empty space at impossible speeds. In 1277, the French bishop Etienne Tempier shot back, ...

READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them to be available, there must be something ...

What sparked your interest in physics? It’s a question that appears regularly in Physics World‘s “Once a physicist” column (which profiles people who studied physics and then went on to do something ...

The BBC’s resident polymath Melvyn Bragg was talking physics again. This morning he was exploring the physics of nothing with Frank Close, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Ruth Gregory. Bell Burnell, by the ...