That was a question Brian Clegg didn’t ask but should have asked. What he asked instead in a recent blogpost was: “ When physicists say ma...

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Tl;dr : A new experiment demonstrates that Hawking radiation in a fluid is entangled, but only in the high frequency end. This result might ...

Basic science is, above all, a stupid word. It sounds like those onions we sliced in 8th grade. And if people don’t mistake “basic” for “e...

Image credits: Paul Terry Sutton According to Einstein you wouldn’t notice crossing a black hole horizon. But now researchers argue that...

Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of...

Tl;dr : Experimentalists are bringing increasingly massive systems into quantum states. They are now close to masses where they might be abl...

It was just announced that this year's Nobel Prize in physics goes to Takaaki Kajita from the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration and Arthur...

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design By Frank Wilczek Penguin Press (July 14, 2015) My four year old daughter recent...

Over the years the discussion of my blogposts has shifted over to facebook. To follow this trend and to make it easier for you to engage, I ...

Tl;dr : I don’t think they want rescuing. String theorists and researchers working on loop quantum gravity (LQG) like to each point out ...

Didn't fly. Tl;dr : The claim in the paper is just wrong. Read on if you want to know why it matters. Several people asked me for c...

What images does the word “power” bring to your mind? Weapons? Bulging muscles? A mean-looking capitalist smoking cigar? Whatever your mind...

Image Credits: Agnis Schmidt-May Tl;dr: Yes. But it’s exceedingly unlikely. Yesterday, a new paper appeared on the arxiv, provocatively...