Physical Sciences

Convicting Scientists For Miscommunicating Risk: What We Should Focus On

mean, and how to take decisions based on a logical assessment of all the variables in the system. Alas, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 29 2012 - 1:28pm

What Makes Particles Unstable?

all the particles to which the muon "couples": the carrier of all the interactions to which ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 9 2012 - 3:59pm

NGC 6872 Declared The Largest-known Spiral Galaxy

direction it rotates. The current study is consistent with this picture. As in all barred spirals, NGC 6872 ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2013 - 9:16pm

Weighted Averages "A' La PDG"

evidently too large for a weighted average to have any meaning! Okay, diatriba mode off- after all I did not ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 18 2013 - 5:37pm

Journey To The Limits Of Spacetime. Hypothetically. With A Computer

are only as good as their assumptions. "All tests of general relativity in the weak gravity field ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2013 - 4:29pm

A Third Van Allen Radiation Belt Discovered Circling Earth

change? All of this information teaches us more about space." Scientists already have theories about ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2013 - 3:20pm

The muon collider: Possibly getting more particle physics bang, for less bucks, by accelerating more massive particles.

All of the above interesting and fundamental physics would be possible with a muon collider and ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 27 2013 - 7:38am

More On Rossi's E-Cat: Ericsson And Pomp Rebut "Independent" Test

the past. All this is well known to all who have followed the story in the recent past. The central ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 12 2013 - 9:06am

Sculpting Tailor-made Fluid Flows With Microfluidic Channels

could be a model for supporting researchers without all of them going to one resource or another. This ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2013 - 12:30pm

Snap Circuits Science: Lie Detector Or "Voodoo Psychology"

electrocuted by all the doodads attached your body than you are being caught telling a lie (which might be read ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Aug 26 2013 - 9:46am