The final outcome
Many physicists in the UK have spent the past six months fuming after a main funding council announced an £80m shortfall in its budget...
Reliving the 'Victorian Internet'
Sending messages around the world by telegram seems very much old hat...
On a lake in southern Germany
I am spending this week on an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany at the 58th meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau
Where are all the physics teachers?
The British media were talking about physics today...
Dark energy at the Science Cafe
There's nothing more annoying than the sound of your own voice...
US: question your congressional candidates
Reports of rumour-mongering, pettiness and mud-slinging may still be rife...
'Abundant health from radioactive waste'
Will my children be playing on a radioactive pony?...
Renaissance man
I was in London yesterday to listen to Anton Zeilinger give the inaugural Isaac Newton lecture...
Two new reactors for Canada
The reactors will come online in 2018 and the design will be chosen in November from a short list of three firms...
A real gem on arXiv
I spent an hour or so this morning trawling through the arXiv preprint server where I spotted "Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila"...
