Today I want to tell you why I had to stop reading news about climate science. Because it pisses me off. Every. Single. Time. There’s al...

Pretty? Get over it. You would think that physicists finally understood that insisting the laws of nature must be beautiful is unscienti...

Quanta Magazine has an article by Phillip Ball titled “ Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab” . It’s ab...

Colbert’s legendary quadruple facepalm. The nutty physics story of the day comes to us thanks to Michael Brooks who reports for  New Sci...

Once upon a time, the task of scientists was to understand nature. “Merchants of Light,” Francis Bacon called them. They were a community ...

Flying carrot.  Title says it all, really, but it’s such a common misunderstanding I want to expand on this for a bit. A major reason ...

Collider quilt. By Kate Findlay. [ Image: Symmetry Magazine ] Nigel Lockyer, the director of Fermilab, recently spoke to BBC about the ...

They talk about me. Grumpy Rainbow Unicorn. [ Image Source. ] And I can’t blame them. Because nothing else is happening on this planet...

Think fake news and echo chambers are a problem only in political discourse? Think again. You find many examples of myths and falsehoods o...

Srsly? Several people asked me to comment on a paper that is hyped by phys.org as a test of quantum gravity . I’ll make this brief. Fi...

I have a headache and blame Nature magazine for it. For about 15 years, I have worked on quantum gravity phenomenology, which means I st...

Numbers speak. [Img Src ] Once upon a time, we had problems in the foundations of physics. Then we solved them. That was 40 years ago. T...

“Any publicity is good publicity” is a reaction I frequently get to my complaints about flaky science coverage. I find this attitude disturb...

Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Da Capo Press (March 28, 2017) (UK Edition, Allen Lane (22 Sept. 2016)) I w...