From Symmetry, a look at ten things you may not know about the Higgs boson. What happened before the Big Bang? Ross Andersen on the new philosophy of cosmology. Cosmologists try to explain a universe springing from nothing. Fields apart: A review of The Infinity Puzzle: Physics on the Fringe by Margaret Wertheim (and more). Bryan Gaensler takes a whirlwind tour of the fastest objects in the universe. Physics has taught us to be very cautious about our naive certainties (“that’s the way it is!”), everyday intuitions (“it must be that way!”), and commonsensical rejections (“that’s impossible!”), so when physicists come up with incredible results, what should we believe? From planets to universes: A lecture given by Martin Rees at Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday symposium (and part 2). Philip Plait on a superbly informative beginner’s guide to the galaxy. How do you show everything that has ever happened? A visualisation from the Chronozoom project takes the biggest of big data — the universe itself — and makes it manageable. A box of universe: Watch the cosmos evolve in a cube one billion light-years wide.
