Physical Sciences

Chaos In A Coffee Stain

of Twente At a critical moment, it is rush hour as all the particles try to reach the outside of the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2011 - 10:33am

See A Supernova This Weekend With Your Kids

a reference because people all over the world know it by some name or other; the Hindus call it Sapta ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 25 2011 - 4:07pm

Snarky Puzzle Action Jackson 5 Answers

potential is not at all pathological. Notice: Half of the equations are always zero. The other half would ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Sep 9 2011 - 12:34am

The Rumsfeld Principle, Mikado Sticks, And How Not To Get The Girl

appeared, soon followed by a an article that brushes aside all earlier entropic gravity criticism based on ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Sep 20 2011 - 10:47am

Can The Higgs Boson And Scale Invariance Explain The Big Bang?

the Big Bang theory. Credit: EPFL How did they come up with all that?  Scale invariance. Starting with ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2011 - 12:23pm

Next-Generation Ice Cream: Time-Released Flavors In Your Cone

would consider buying it. They consumed all of their samples and sometimes wanted more, a good sign the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2011 - 1:36pm

Making A More Accurate Ampere

more accurate.  Scientists like the idea to relate all of the unit definitions to fundamental constants ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2011 - 10:05am

Should Researchers Blog? Should Their Employers Encourage Them?

this is going to work at all, since time is short (the conference lasts three days) and I do not think ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 5 2011 - 6:44am

Four Papers Worth Browsing

the paper it refers to-one recently published by G.Cowan, K.Cranmer, E.Gross, and O.Vitells (all ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 26 2011 - 3:38am

Faster Than Light Neutrinos And Relativity

immediately obtains the velocity v as: Then, from m 2 >0 follows v<c. This holds for all known ...

Article - Paolo Ciafaloni - Oct 31 2011 - 10:36am