Category Archives: News

It is one thing to introduce the world’s most famous scientist to a live audience; it’s even more exciting to do so at a venue like the Royal Albert Hall. Well, that’s exactly what I got to do last Wednesday evening. [Read more...]

I must confess I have been feeling a little guilty recently as the day of the Government’s Annual Spending Review and impending cuts looms ever closer. [Read more...]

I am working with my director, Nic Stacey, and exec producer, Paul Sen, on a way of visualising on television the way combining quantum mechanics and special relativity necessitates the existence of anti-particles. I know how the textbooks do it, but not very visual. Here is a discussion of two of the ways this stuff can be explained. [Read more...]

Here is the transcript of the second of my ‘Series 2′ sci-pods (which you can, if you prefer, download from this website or subscribe to for free via iTunes). In this blog I use physics rather than philosophy, metaphysics or theology to argue the case for free will.

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Next August, a large international conference will be held to celebrate the centenary of Lord Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic nucleus. It will take place in Manchester, the spiritual home of nuclear physics, where Rutherford carried out his pioneering work that marked the birth of the atomic age, and in doing so defined the course of the 20th century. [Read more..]

Here is an early list of lecture engagements to be given by Jim Al-Khalili coinciding with the publication of his new book:

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe. But humans are a curious species. We wonder, we seek answers… Continue reading →

Blog post about the new title of my forthcoming book.