Rahul Mandal, the researcher who won TV’s Great British Bake Off last year, is the star of the August 2019 issue of Physics World magazine with a tasty look at the science of baking. Based at the ...

Special relativity is beyond weird. Among its many statements are that moving clocks run slow and that moving rulers shrink. But how are we supposed to make sense of this? When you purchase through ...

The contraction of a measured length of an object or a distance in a frame of reference moving at nearly the speed of light, predicted by the theory of special relativity.

Two ground-breaking papers, published back-to-back in Nature 54 years ago, independently showed that muscle shortens as a result of the sliding between the thick and thin filaments of the fibres ...