In the News:
The coolest-sounding science news of the moment is undoubtedly "Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet"" NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting...
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Posted on March 20, 2008 7:28 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The annual March Meeting of the American Physical Society is happening this week in New Orleans. This is the biggest physics conference of the year, by far, with close to 7,000 attendees-- despite what you might think from the Internet,...
Posted on March 11, 2008 7:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's another Mars article in the Times this morning, which I wouldn't bother to note in a full post save for one thing: the way they got the results. The right front wheel of Spirit stopped turning in March 2006....
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Posted on December 12, 2007 12:13 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dave Bacon watched "Judgement Day" last night, and has a question: It's not like, you know, there aren't people who think quantum theory is wrong or that quantum theory is somehow related to the Vedic teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi....
Posted on November 14, 2007 8:46 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, in case you missed the splashy banner ads that have been running here for the last week, NOVA ran a show about the Dover, PA "Intelligent Design" trial last night. You can find all manner of commentary on ScienceBlogs,...
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Posted on November 14, 2007 8:22 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Blasting hydrogen molecules into pieces creates the world's smallest double slit, and provides information about why the world looks classical..
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Posted on November 13, 2007 10:49 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Big results from the Pierre Auger Observatory.
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Posted on November 9, 2007 9:20 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New results on friction between very small objects, and rugby as a teaching tool.
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Posted on November 5, 2007 10:20 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Times today has an article on famous scientists who have nutty ideas, inspired by the James Watson kerfuffle of the last couple of weeks. Of course, they had to mention at least one kooky physicist, leading to this wonderful...
Posted on October 28, 2007 9:58 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the spirit of the newly clarified regulations governing the Academic Competitiveness Grant and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant Programs administered by the Department of Education, I am pleased to announce the Uncertain Principles Physics...
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Posted on October 15, 2007 9:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Having gotten that silly Medicine business out of the way, the Swedish Academy has moved on to the important Award, with the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics going to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance....
Posted on October 9, 2007 6:12 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Guess the winner of any of this year's Nobel Prizes (before they're announced), and win a prize.
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Posted on October 8, 2007 8:02 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Institute of Physics is the UK's main organization of physicists (sort of like the American Physical Society), and yesterday, they announced their awards for 2007. The full list of winners is only available as a Word file, for some...
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Posted on October 4, 2007 8:23 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thoughts on the bonds between pets and their owners.
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Posted on October 2, 2007 8:24 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From the "You Read Too Much SF" file: I was really disappointed by the press release that went with the headline: Mysterious energy burst stuns astronomers A headline like that really ought to involve bodies strewn about a remote observatory,...
Posted on September 29, 2007 7:58 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's a reason why "rocket science" is the paradigm of difficulty, and it's not the math, which is just vector calculus.
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Posted on September 27, 2007 10:23 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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