Symmetry (Short Film) from Apostolos Vasileiadis on Vimeo . A physics professor loses control over a false theory of his. A student is...

Google “multiverse paradigm” and you get more than a thousand hits. According to Wikipedia a paradigm “describes distinct concepts or thoug...

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yo...

Two weeks ago, Barak Obama visited Stockholm and spent half an hour or so on the KTH campus . Since Nordita is officially part of KTH, safet...

Small wavelength photons (blue) travel faster than their long wavelength companions (red). [ Image Source ] Gamma ray bursts emit high...

The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality By Dave Goldberg Dutton Adult (July 11, 2013) In his new book “...

A decade ago, the AdS/CFT correspondence was celebrated as a possible description of the quark gluon plasma. RHIC measurements of heavy ion...

There’s been some buzz going through the blogosphere, following an essay by Steven Pinker on “Scientism” . On the one side of the debate are...

I got issues. Here’s one. I don’t like what people say about special relativity. Because we’re friends, special relativity and I. I got is...

I get asked a lot how I keep up the blogging. It might be the second most asked question right after “What happened to your hair?” (Answer: ...

When A falls into the black hole B gets thermally distributed headache. If Blogger had space for a subtitle it would be “A paper I can’...

My new paper. Measures for scientific success have become a hot topic in the community. Many scientists have spoken out in view of the i...

Yes, there's Swedish Umlauts in the header. Our local readers might be interested to hear that Nordita will take part in the bi-annual o...

You might have seen this collection of 40 world maps in your news feed recently. It's interesting and worth a look. When I scrolled dow...

Squaring the melon. Image source . I think of myself as a very average person. I like the music on the radio and enjoy books on bestsell...

Information is Beautiful (New Edition) By David McCandless Collins (6 Dec 2012) The more information, the more relevant it becomes to ...

It has become trendy to study scientists. Two weeks ago, a group of network researchers published a paper in “Scientific Reports” that aims ...