There are some self-evident ones, like Planck’s constant h, the speed of light c and the cryptic signs that represent planets in ancient (and modern) astronomy. For other symbols, part of the fun lies ...

Sixty Symbols is a great effort: A group of professional scientists of various stripes putting out short videos, each one tackling a different symbol in science. ∆F, -K, kg… each one is explained ...

A final cosmic Valentine’s Day wish from the wonderful Sixty Symbols site: a video valentine. Check out the other videos at the Sixty Symbols site, too. The woman introducing the video is my friend ...

Nothing can travel faster than light. This is an innate law of the universe which can never be broken. But if you're not careful when looking through a telescope, you could be fooled into thinking ...

(via Sixty Symbols) We discuss the idea with one of the paper's co-authors, Dr James Unwin... plus black hole enthusiast Dr Becky Smethurst.

V838 Monocerotis is a supernova that seems to be expanding ten times faster than the speed of light! Sixty Symbols explains how.

The University of Nottingham's website on all things physics and astronomy, Sixty Symbols, sometimes takes reader questions and then makes a short YouTube film to give the answer. Recently, they ...