'Nova Corona Borealis 1866 was the first Nova to have its spectrum examined.  Eighty years later in 1946 the Nova erupted again, causing great excitement.  Now, after a further eighty years of observations in all wavelengths, we eagerly await the next eruption.  This is the story of its discovery in 1866 and 1946, and what we might […]

Special Relativity Without the Maths (or How to Fit a Metre Stick into a Matchbox)You might think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s. You might even have noticed the faster you run, the quicker you get there. Have you ever noticed the faster you run, the closer the chemist gets? No? […]