Physical Sciences

A Brief History Of Exo-Earths And The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

to water. All living things we know of need water in its liquid phase to grow and reproduce. So when ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 26 2014 - 4:30pm

Shopping Around For A Post-Doc

be offering much more money to post-docs than Harvard, so there were all reasons to investigate the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 28 2015 - 2:58pm

Knockin' On New Physics Door

after the release of the results, there are already over ten papers on the web. All of them trying to ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 8 2016 - 9:01pm

Beautiful Edible Orange Zinnia- First Zinnia But Not First Flower In Space- And Astronaut Choices

Extended Spaceflight On growing plants in space for food and oxygen, see my Could Astronauts Get All Their ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 19 2016 - 12:26pm

Complexity And Optimization: Lost In Design Space

Complexity: Witnessing Human-AI Integration Critically ” where the status of all this as suppressed ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 7 2016 - 11:31pm

What If The Moon Had Blue Skies? One Small Change To Apollo Photos

Earth in the sky all day and all night on the Earth facing side. The landscape goes a dramatic red ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 9 2016 - 6:53am

Searching For Light Dark Matter: A Gedankenexperiment

a very small rate! Let's imagine that we can exclude from consideration all signals appearing in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 19 2018 - 11:38am

Can There Be A Planet Or Dwarf Planet With The Same Shape As Ultima Thule's Snowman?

Kuiper belts and Oort clouds, well away from all the action in the inner star systems, are the best ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 4 2019 - 8:29pm

Lattice QCD Calculations Disprove Anomaly In Muon Gyromagnetic Ratio

you should also use all the relevant information you have, unless you can prove that the extra one you ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 4 2020 - 12:16pm

Those Rare Decays Of Kaons

spurious discoveries arising in multiple testing, while this is no multiple testing at all, I personally ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 1 2020 - 8:30am