A new website called the " HEP Postdoc Project " allows postdocs in high energy physics to rate their supervisors in categories ...

Yes, today marks the 10th anniversary of my first post on this blog . I started blogging while I was in Santa Barbara, in a tiny fifth-f...

Bump ahead. Tl;dr : A third experiment has reported an unexplained bump in the spectrum of reactor-produced anti-neutrinos. Speculations...

“I was hoping you could comment on the connection between gravitational waves and gravitational quanta. From what I gather, the observation...

That science works merely by testing hypotheses has never been less true than today. As data have become more precise and theories have be...

Last year in September, upgrades of the gravitational wave interferometer LIGO were completed. The experiment – now named advanced LIGO –...

Tl;dr: Researchers put forward a theoretical argument that new physics must appear at energies much lower than commonly thought, barely b...

I'm back from my trip. Here are some things that prevented me from more substantial blogging: I wrote an article for Aeon, " The ...

The arXiv is the physicsts' marketplace of ideas. In high energy physics and adjacent fields, almost all papers are submitted to the ar...

Greetings from the west-end of my trip, which brought me out to Maui, visiting Garrett at the Pacific Science Institute , PSI. Launched roug...

Tl;dr : A new paper demonstrates that quantum gravity can split light into spectral colors. Gravitational rainbows are almost certainly un...

Astrophysicists dream of putting radio telescopes on the far side of the moon. [Image Credits: 21stcentech.com ] An upcoming generatio...

I am traveling the next three weeks and things will go very slowly on this blog. In case you missed it, you might enjoy two pieces I recen...

From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe By Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung...

I wish people would stop insisting they have free will. It’s terribly annoying. Insisting that free will exists is bad science, like insis...

Soft hair. Redshifted. Last year August , Stephen Hawking announced he had been working with Malcom Perry and Andrew Strominger on a solu...