Physical Sciences

The Buried Lottery

Particle physics is cool, but being a particle physicist these days is tough. First of all, we live in our ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 26 2024 - 2:13pm

A Zeptospace Odyssey- Gian Giudice's Brilliant New Book

friends. Gian Francesco Giudice First of all, a word on the author. Gian Francesco Giudice is a brilliant ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 12 2010 - 6:43am

Petition: Let's End Dramatized Reporting Of "Doomsday" Stories- The Vulnerable Get Suicidal

Journalist should not publish totally non noteworthy "silly season" doomsday stories at all- in ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 26 2016 - 5:15am

Nano Bubbles Unexplained Mysteries And One Big Mystery

provide more gas pressure and smaller radii, a common experimental observation with nanobubbles, all ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 19 2016 - 2:45am

Six-muon Events Probe Proton Collision Dynamics

stored for only a millionth of them: that is all we can allow ourselves, given our data acquisition ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 22 2021 - 12:13pm

Choosing Your Bets: The Selection Bias

the potential for foul play. We all like to trust the honesty of people we interact with, but in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 22 2026 - 8:34am

Women In Science: Professor Meg Urry On Why There Are So Few Women In Physics

colleagues tell me that they are perfectly objective with respect to gender. "But come on! We’re all ...

Article - Matthew Brown - Oct 8 2008 - 11:41pm

Dark Matter: A Critical Assessment Of Recent Cosmic-Ray Signals

you need a crash course on the cryptic names of all those fancy elementary particles, here is one: ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 17 2009 - 4:57pm

Limits To Science: God, Godel, Gravity

Kurt Gödel was all of it to the extreme. A lively account of Gödel's social interactions with ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Nov 12 2010 - 10:48pm

Stephen Hawking- Predicts Earth To Glow Red Hot By 2600 Due To Population Growth- Could It?

INTERSTELLAR COLONIZATION CAN NEVER SOLVE EXPONENTIAL POPULATION GROWTH After all what is the point in dashing ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 5 2019 - 11:24pm