Physics and Physicists

With the Tevatron being shut down at the end of September this year, there were questions on whether the LHC might not continue with its pla...

Oooh.... a rumor on a possible creation of a Partial Differential Equation class! This is a damn, fine gossip! :) OK, I read this news rep...

I'm often curious as to how people find this blog. Very often, a lot of people stumbled upon it via Google search. But other times, they...

The thing that passes as "news" nowadays..... So I mentioned a week ago about the Bears-Packers game that had some historical c...

A very entertaining and informative video on the various vibrational modes of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, as demonstrated on a ...

No, I didn't misspell the word "physics". A while back, I wrote about physicists some time being mistakenly called as ...

This is from last week, but I didn't have time till recently to look into this. This is a rather neat experiment. It looks at how electr...

It is interesting to find out that now, even companies are considering the cost of not only Global Warming, but they are also now battling t...

Here's a piece of news that bucked the trend nowadays of schools shutting down physics programs. The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma has a...

Oh, this is turning into a comedy act! If you recall, several months ago, a physicist in Australia spotted an error in Oxford Dictionary o...

Ars Technica has a terrific article on the nature and process of discovery in science. It describes the role of what is called "placeh...

OK, a bit of background info for those not familiar with American Football, and those who are not into sports. The Chicago Bears football te...

It turns out that the LA Times caught some flak from bloggers and readers when, in reporting Hawking's visit to CalTech recently, they ...

The American Physical Society, publisher of the Physical Review journals, announced today of the creation of a new open access journal, Phys...

I probably shouldn't waste my time on something like this. But if *I* can find such article easily, someone else who might really be loo...

We should not forget that besides the scientific achievement of the LHC, the task of handling the humongous amount of data coming it at such...

This is a wonderful article about what we have obtained so far from the experiments at the LHC, or in particular, at the CMS detector. It s...

Anyone who has been reading this blog for any considerable period of time would know that I love, LOVE reading on or studying small, "m...

That's what Lisa Randall said on the imminent shut down of the Tevatron this coming September. Her quote is part of another examination ...

This effect seems to have a life of its own, and certainly generating a lot of interesting discussion and experiments. I've mentioned pr...