“I've often heard you say that we don't have a theory of quantum gravity yet. What would be the requirements, the conditions, for q...

Bill Nye, also known as The Science Guy, is a popular science communicator in the USA. He has appeared regularly on TV and, together with Co...

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Neutrinos, gravitational waves, light deflection on the sun – the history of physics is full with phenomena once believed immeasurably sma...

[img source: changingcourse.com ] Here in basic research we all preach the gospel of serendipity. Breakthroughs cannot be planned, insig...

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Heavy paper. What would you say if a man with British accent cold-calls you one evening to offer money because he likes your blog? I s...

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...