Lara and Gloria are now almost three months old. They have doubled their birth weight and grown in and out of the newborn cloths. Gloria is ...

Some weeks ago I asked my midwife what made her chose her job. She told me she had actually wanted to study medicine, but didn't meet th...

APS's newest journal is Physical Review X (PRX) . It's online-only, open access and accepted articles will be published upon payment...

I always feel awkward if somebody brings up the topic of women's underrepresentation in physics. Though I'm one of these underrepres...

That the space-time of Einstein's Special and General Relativity might not be fundamental plays a central rôle in our quest for quantum ...

These are hard times for physicists working on supersymmetry. The LHC constrains the parameter space with so far no evidence for what has be...

The extend to which one can construct a model for human society is a matter of dispute. Among the most common arguments why it might not be ...

The German Winter is making place for Spring's first green, and our two lovely girls are now almost two months old. Lara and Gloria have...

Five years ago I wrote the first post for this blog. Since then I've moved from Santa Barbara to Canada and from Canada to Sweden . I...

The German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg holds the title of Dr. jur. from the University in Bayreuth. He finished his thesis i...

In the very early universe matter was dense and hot. With the expansion of space, matter cooled down which eventually allowed for the format...

A Brilliant Darkness The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age João Mag...

I almost forgot! Last year, the Canadian Association of Physicists ' journal " Physics in Canada " published an issue on Perim...

The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis Yes, I said ...

Seed magazine has an interesting article On Science Transfer . It is about the measurement of scientific success by means of automatized met...

Last year in September , the Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi , called for nominations for the " Most Courageous Postdoc Prize ....

Katy Börner from the project "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science," who came with her poster exhibition to our 2008 conference o...

Lara and Gloria are now 4 weeks old. They are gaining weight and are growing and keep us off from sleeping as you'd expect from 4 weeks...

Secrecy was arguably one of the hottest topics in 2010. In 2011, Julian Assange will hopefully vanish from the headlines, but how to deal wi...

... or so one could paraphrase the Edge Question 2011: "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?" ...