Free lecture: IOP president Jocelyn Bell Burnell on pulsars and extreme physics

Pulsars were discovered 35 years ago. What do we know about them now, and what have they taught us about the extremes of physics? They serve as extremely accurate clocks with which to carry out precision experiments in relativity. Created in cataclysmic explosions, pulsars are a (stellar) form of life after death. After half a [...]