Milla Jovovich in “The Fifth Element” I still find it amazing that all I see around me is made up of only some dozens particles and four ...

As the year 2014 is nearing its end, lists with the most read stories are making the rounds. Everything in there, from dinosaurs over mir...

I have a post about " The rising star of science " over at Starts with a Bang. It collects some of my thoughts on science and reli...

The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know about the All-There-Is Roberto Trotta Basic Books (9. Oktober 2014) It's two days before ...

Logo of site by name loop insight . The insight to take away is that you have to carefully look for those infinities [Fast track to wi...

During the summer, I wrote a paper that I dumped in an arxiv category called cond-mat.stat-mech, and then managed to entirely forget about ...

“The anthropic principle – the idea that our universe has the properties it does because we are here to say so and that if it were any diff...

[Image Source: Ginva.com ] Science News ran a piece the other week about a paper that has appeared in PRD titled “Negative mass bubbles ...

[Image Source: Papercards ] Last month, a group of Australian researchers from the life sciences published a paper that breaks down t...

[Image source: Stickypictures .] My mom is a, now-retired, high school teacher. As teenager I thought this was a great job and wanted to...

My primary reaction to any new idea on the arXiv is conviction that it’s almost certainly wrong, and if I can’t figure out quickly why it’s ...

The pile of money whose value you have been guessing came out to be 68.22 Euro and 0.5 Deutsche Mark, the latter of which I didn't coun...

The twins' piggy banks are full, so I've slaughtered them. Put in your guess of how much they've swallowed and you can win a (...

Inertia creeps . Today, for the first time in human history a scientist has written this sentence – or so would be my summary of most sc...

My first international physics conference was in Turkey. It was memorable not only because smoking was still allowed on the plane. The confe...

Einstein’s greatest legacy is not General Relativity, it’s not quantum entanglement, and it’s not slices of his brain either. It’s a word: G...

Image Source: Loom Love . If I had one word to explain human culture at the dawn of the 21st century it would be “viral”. Everybody, it ...