Physical Sciences

Higgs Expectations

the green curve (the one below all others) since it is the one corresponding to the data in ATLAS ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 3 2011 - 8:12am

A Statistical Issue In The Opera Measurement

from a uniform distribution, and all that is left to measure, in order to find the best estimate of the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 4 2012 - 9:04am

Snark Attack Avoided with Answers

Z 4: The number 1 steps in for j, and i for k, but all the signs stay the same. This is Z 4. ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Mar 7 2012 - 10:19pm

The Near Future Of Manned Spaceflight

all-government... or else that all government action is evil and wholly uncreative.  We are a complex people in ...

Article - David Brin - Sep 4 2012 - 5:21pm

How To Split Black Holes

black hole. Both black holes almost certainly have found each other, and all signs indicate the ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 16 2012 - 4:26am

No Escape From Problems in Space Colonies- Earth is Des Res- Even After Nuclear War or Asteroid Impact

the solar system.  They probably won't resemble us- after all a billion years ago the trilobites ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Jun 4 2014 - 11:12am

The Crackpot Conundrum

personally evaluate scientific claims.  I don't have the biology chops to understand all the details of ...

Blog Post - Edward "Henry" Brown - Sep 9 2014 - 6:06pm

Happy 150th Birthday To Maxwell's Theory Of Electromagnetism

place to another. Maxwell was about to solve all these mysteries. On differentiating his partial ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 26 2015 - 9:00am

Wandering Jupiter, Did Our Solar System Once Have Super-Earths?

circumstances--one in which all of the inner solar system's planetary building blocks, or planetesimals, happen ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2015 - 3:21pm

No, We're Not Being Pickled In Deadly Cell Phone Radiation

shows brain cancer incidence has all but flat-lined across the 29 years for which data are available. ...

Article - Simon Chapman - May 25 2015 - 12:02pm