Foam. Image source: DoITPoMS .  Axions are hypothetical particles that are presently being searched for as possible dark matter candidat...

When historians will look back at the 21st century, they’ll refer to it as the century in which religion died and the scientific revolution ...

Gloria's collapse model. We in the quantum gravity groups all over the planet search for a unified framework for general relativity ...

Participants of the 2012 conference on  Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity . The search for quantum gravity and a theory of everyt...

Patrick Sutton George and I came up with the idea for this workshop one year ago at a reception of an earlier Nordita workshop . Yes, ...

First direct evidence for gravitons. I’ve never met Freeman Dyson, but I’ve argued with him many times. Almost every time I give a sem...

I sat down to write a piece explaining why scientific research is essential to our societies and why we should invest in applied and basic s...

The recent results from the Planck mission have caused a flurry of activity among theoretical physicists, documented on the arXiv in an incr...

I finished high school in 1995, and the 1998 evidence for the cosmological constant from supernova redshift data was my first opportunity to...

[Howard Burton, founding director of Perimeter Institute, has a new project, Ideas Roadshow , a weekly magazine dedicated to ideas of all ty...

Dimensionally reduced scientist. “Science is the only news,” Steward Brand wrote. My reading of this sentence is that science, the explo...

Garry Gutting's recent post What Do Scientific Studies Show? at the NYT blogs is utterly unremarkable. Or so I thought, being clearly b...

Last month I had the flu. I was down with a fever of more than 40°C, four days in a row. Needless to say, it was a public holiday. While t...

It always amazes me how skewed the image of physics research in the popular press is. To begin with, the amount of coverage is totally unrep...