Physical Sciences

First CMS Physics Result At 13 TeV: Top Quarks

in very good match with theory, so for now all we can say is that CMS is back in business and that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 22 2015 - 3:48am

Say, Where Can We Get A Drink In This Solar System?

rocket fuel) would be foolish to plunge all the way inwards to the Earth, from where they’d have to haul ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 25 2015 - 3:00am

Highlights From ICNFP 2015

is so, as the atmosphere benefits from a relatively small number of participants who can all have ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 31 2015 - 3:59pm

Superconduction With Stinks — A New Temperature Record

a guide for achieving high transition temperatures with no theoretical upper bound — all that is needed is ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Sep 2 2015 - 3:44pm

5 Myths About Gravitational Waves

astrophysical processes, which are happening all the time. The most dominant of these sources is the rotation of ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 6 2015 - 8:30am

Place Your Bets: The Top 5 Candidates For 'Dark Matter'

explaining a lot of observations in physics, states that all “boson” particles – such as the neutron – have ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 14 2015 - 8:56am

Top Solar System Discoveries In 2015

small icy bodies. Comets, asteroids, Kuiper Belt Objects and planetary satellites have all been in the ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 28 2015 - 10:02am

What Next INFN: A Research Institute Interrogates Itself On Its Future

astrophysics, neutrino physics, and cosmology. I am not at all sure that if I were a 25-year-old PhD student ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 17 2016 - 3:56pm

LIGO And The Denver Broncos: A Tale Of Two Comebacks

considered down and out by many, so the LIGO all-star team of physicists stumbled. During the late 1980’s ...

Article - Michael Gamble - Feb 26 2016 - 1:51pm

Variable Speed Fan With Snap Circuits, Kano Computer

erector set motor will cause the transistor to overheat with no load at all. For a humorous discussion ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Mar 30 2016 - 8:08am