Physics and Physicists

 At the start of a new semester, I'm amazed at how much I've learned over the summer about online and remote learning. Taking the wo...

This is a follow-up on the topic that I posted last time regarding evidence that far-UVC light can effectively reduce airborne virus transm...

First, let me give you the link to the paper that was published in Nature recently. I actually have 3 separate topics to discuss here all b...

Dear Student, Many of you may continue having some form of online or remote learning this coming Fall 2020 and maybe even for the next few s...

We have had reports of the discovery of possible tetraquarks and pentaquarks before (i.e. particles with 4 quarks and particles with 5 quark...

This is highly elementary for most of you. But I've learned a long time ago that what I consider to be obvious and trivial, is not the c...

PIP-II is being built at Fermilab as a new linear proton accelerator for its needs in years to come. Zz.

I tell ya, after years and years of searching for gravitational waves, and then finally discovering it several years ago, the LIGO-Virgo gra...

Many, if not most, of us have heard of N95 masks when the pandemic first appeared, especially when there were reports of their shortages. Wh...

While there has been no official word yet, there are strong indications that come Fall 2020, my classes will go back to totally remote learn...

This is another one of those "The more they test it, the more convincing it becomes." New "free fall" measurement in e...

 Not as amusing as Pigs In Space, but still quite impressive. The ISS is useful after all! :) Physicists have created the first controlled...

A new eye on the sky is about to add to our knowledge of dark energy. It's interesting that in the list of funding agencies, NASA i...

The June 2020 issue of Physics Today has an article on various physics instructors' effort in dealing with the migration to online teac...

It's been close to a week since I submitted the final grades for my students. I'm still giving my sigh of relief that the crazy seme...

This was the last lab that my students managed to do before all in-person classes were cancelled due to the coronavirus. They had to build a...

The latest report on T2K results has been published[1], and it looks good for the upcoming long neutrino baseline experiment at DUNE and T2H...

Although Tom Gauld's cartoons do not actually focus on physics, he has included topics related to physics before. This NY Times article ...

Before all this mess with the coronavirus came up, I got the chance to wear these two t-shirts to my class when I was teaching resistance/ci...

I'm sure everyone involved in course instruction is facing the same issue. The past 2 weeks have been rather hectic as I rush to reform ...