Quantum gravity has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of space, time, and matter and with it redefine our own place in the wo...

Lara and Gloria are now five months old. They have made a lot of progress in coordinating their movements. They can now grab and hold things...

Stefan has a lot of books. And most of them are about physics. The other day I picked a random book and opened a random page and saw myself ...

So we've made it to Stockholm, but presently life is chaos. The plan was that I drive the household to Sweden by car and Stefan and the ...

Our democracies rely on informed decision making. The internet is an asset when it comes to sharing of information, but as with any tool it ...

You might think it's the individual's pursuit of happiness that is the driving force behind our societies' dynamics, the progres...

Sorry for the silence. I seem to have caught a stomach bug on the trip to Canada and spent the better half of the week commuting between bed...

I am flying to Toronto on the weekend and will be visiting Perimeter Institute the coming two weeks. Since Superdaddy will be terribly busy ...

... then here's some things to consider: The recent issue of Nature has a News Report "The PhD factory - The world is producing mo...

In the aftermath of the plagiarism affair that led to the withdrawal of German defense minister zu Guttenberg's doctor title and, event...

Earlier this year, Gideon Rachman asked in the Financial Times "Where have all the thinkers gone?" Contemplating the Foreign Polic...

multiverse [noun] From L. multus “much, many” and L. versare “to busy oneself,” lit. “to turn to.” Tech: A hypothetical collection of dif...

Berlin, April 1st 2011: The Federal Intelligence Service discovered a Ponzi scheme of academic citations lead by an unemployed particle phy...

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 ...