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...
LHC magnets pass test
On April 3 last year, the left-hand side of the Fermilab Today website had a graphical weather forecast depicting storm clouds...
'He should seriously consider his position'
The current "crisis" in physics funding in the UK was big news this morning on BBC Radio 4's Today programme...
Computing with Playstations
With $5000 of his research grant left burning a hole in his wallet earlier this year, Frank Mueller decided to hit the shops...
Tabloid climate change
You don't need a research paper to tell you that tabloid newspapers aren't the best source of scientific information...
The ‘Measurement Fair’ returns to Nuremberg
Three-day Sensor + Test 2008 exhibition and conferences will offer hands-on demonstrations of the latest test and measurement technologies
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The four horsemen
This is a slide from a talk given by David Bader of Lawrence Livermore on behalf of Brian Soden of the University of Miami...
Weathering the storm
"You can flood a city, but you can't drown a university", says Greg Seab, a physicist at the University of New Orleans who was speaking at a press conference on the impact of Katrina on local physi...
