- Tycho Brahe: Mercury Didn't Kill Him
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... Jan Kučera, professor of nuclear chemistry at the Nuclear Physics Institute in Prague. Research leader Jens Vellev, ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2025 - 2:49pm - 0 attachments
- 5 Spooky Scientific Research Papers For Halloween
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... which appears to violate core principles of traditional physics. However, Scientists at Delft University of Technology in the ... on their blood. Reference: Cinema Fiction vs Physics Reality: Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies , C.J. Efthimiou, S. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2025 - 2:05pm - 0 attachments
- God Does Play Dice With The Universe (And The Dice Are Fair)
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Want to get into a bar fight at a physics conference? Argue that quantum mechanics is the best way to predict ... a confusing dichotomy, basically the LeBron James of the physics world. Einstein and the giants of his day could not settle ... 2 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.020402 (Physics) ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 11 2025 - 9:23am - 0 attachments
- Don't Fear Nuclear Power, No Matter What The Lancet Wants To Believe
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70 years ago saw the world's only wartime use of nuclear weapons, when the USA dropped the devastating weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading directly to the end of World War II. No one wants to see such destructive power ever used again, a ...
Article - Gil Ross - Jul 7 2025 - 9:45am - 0 attachments
- 6 Years To Scientists Guilty Of Not Predicting Earthquakes
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... to the salary I myself get for doing research in particle physics, they will have to pay for about 50 years. Except that they are also ... for his important contributions to theoretical particle physics (he is the "M" in the GIM mechanism which he formulated together with ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 5 2025 - 1:49pm - 0 attachments
- James Lovelock: What's Eating The Godfather Of Global Warming?
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James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, Ph.D, aged 92, is a chemist and creator of the Gaia Hypothesis. He is called the 'Godfather of Global Warming'. What he was, to most people, was an alarmist more on the order of President Obama's Science Czar ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 26 2025 - 7:47am - 0 attachments
- Light In The Pantheon And Ancient Astronomy
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... that most archaeologists don't have much interest in physics. The gnomon was simply too far away from the Ara Pacis to cast a shadow ...
Article - Alun Salt - Jun 17 2025 - 4:14pm - 0 attachments
- Strange Climate Math - Driving Is Better For Pollution Than Walking
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... Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006 (Applied Physics) ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2025 - 9:20pm - 2 attachments
- Yankee Stadium - The House That Bernoulli Built
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... It's either a miracle of engineering or the biggest physics mistake since the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Tacoma Narrows. ... of what happens when you don't properly account for the physics of fluid flow. Playing in their swanky new billion-dollar-plus ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2025 - 8:54am - 0 attachments
- Is A Ph.D. A Waste Of Time?
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The Economist argues , as they would be expected to argue, given their free market leaning, that due to the glut of Ph.D.s and therefore the poor job market (in academia), it is a waste of time. A Ph.D. who enters the job corporate world for ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 24 2025 - 7:37pm - 0 attachments