Canadian firm shelves isotope reactors
The sad saga of the MAPLE nuclear reactors may have finally come to a close...
The dusty cosmos
Astrophysicists have a better idea of how dust obscures the light from galaxies...
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...
Nearly seeing Hawking radiation?
Astrophysicists have known for more than three decades that black holes shouldn't be totally black...
Einstein's mistakes
'Many of [Einstein's] ground-breaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious misconceptions in physics to blatant errors in mathematics'...
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...
Nickel-based compound joins a new class of superconductor
The high Tc superconductivity community has been abuzz lately with the discovery of a growing number of iron-based materials...
