Today our two beautiful girls are two years old! We have two cakes with two candles each and the apartment is full of balloons, awaiting the...

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind By V. S. Ramachandran, S. Blakeslee William Morrow Paperbacks (1999) Ye...

We wish all our readers happy holidays and a merry Christmas, and if you're not celebrating Christmas, we wish you a good time anyway. ...

15 years ago large extra dimensions were on vogue. The idea that our universe may have additional spatial dimensions so small we have not ...

Abraham Flexner was one of the founders of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. The other day I came across a wonderful essay, tit...

The gauge-gravity duality is a spin-off from string theory and has attracted considerable attention for its potential to describe the quark ...

Two weeks ago, we discussed nematic films : thin layers of liquid crystals in solution, dropped on a substrate. These thin films are pretty ...

The December issue of the Swedish magazine " Populär Astronomi " (Popular Astronomy) has a researcher profile about me. You can d...

Quantum Gravity: The Holey Grail. Jonathan Granot’s colloquium slides have an amusing typo rendering quantum gravity the “holey grail o...

In a recent arxiv paper, Jacob Bekenstein from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem proposed a tabletop experiment to test Planck scale signal...

I read last week that the German daily newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau" declared bankruptcy . While it's not the first and pr...

Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives By Dean Buonomano W. W. Norton & Company (August 6, 2012) We have to thank ...

Image source: arXiv:1010.0832 [cond-mat.soft] No, it's not a moon passage in front of an exoplanet. It's a thin nematic film. ...

Sean wrote a wonderful post about the recent measurement of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background from the South Pole Telesco...

This month, we have a program on "Perspectives of Fundamental Cosmology" here at Nordita , which I've been organizing togethe...

Gloria trying out my running shoes. Fall has come to Germany and with it a bunch of bad news. The grant application that I had written ...

Conference Photo: Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity 2012. The third installment of our conference "Experimental Search for Q...

Hello from Canada and sorry for the silence, I'm here for the 2012 conference on Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity , and the sched...

Physicists like systems with fewer than the three spatial dimensions that we are used to. Not so much because that's easier, but because...

Soft Matter: The stuff that dreams are made of By Roberto Piazza Springer (April 11, 2011) Some months ago I had a conversation about ne...