Going once…a first edition of Copernicus’s magnum opus
Most of you will never have raised an arm at Christie's auction house...
Beauty in simplicity
What would you choose as the most beautiful science experiment ever performed? Some Physics World readers...
Canadian firm shelves isotope reactors
The sad saga of the MAPLE nuclear reactors may have finally come to a close...
US public say yes to science debate
I'm sorry to say that this snippet of news about ScienceDebate 2008 escaped my attention...
Oh brother, where art thou?
I wonder if many other scientists under the wing of the Holy See agree with Jose Gabriel Funes...
The return of the 'Science Warrior'
Plugging his new book in Bristol, UK, last night was arch-rationalist Alan Sokal...
Who cares if it’s not even wrong?
"So what would you do if string theory is wrong?" asks string theorist Moataz Emam in a paper posted on arXiv yesterday...
Is this the youngest professor ever?
Alia Sabur has allegedly broken the record for the world's youngest professor...
Comparisons
Being at the APS meeting last year in Denver, I can’t help but think about some comparisons. Although I was at the march meeting last year in a different capacity (as a researcher, giving my 10+...
Baseball and steroids
How much do drugs affect the performance of athletes and more interestingly how can we quantify such enhanced performance? That was the question that Roger Tobin, a condensed matter physicist from Tuf...
