Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Urban myths have been around for centuries – and there’s even sciency versions. In a classic, a physics ...

Our hats, of which we have very many, are firmly off this week to Frédéric Bouquet and fellow inhabitants of the 15-metre-high Laboratory of Solid State Physics in Orsay, France, for their paper “61 ...