“Any publicity is good publicity” is a reaction I frequently get to my complaints about flaky science coverage. I find this attitude disturb...

Thanks to BBC, I will now for several years get emails from know-it-alls who think physicists are idiots not to realize the expansion of the...

I have many shortcomings, like leaving people uncertain whether they’re supposed to laugh or not. But you can’t blame me for lack of vision....

A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes Zeeya Merali Basic Books (February 14, 2017) When I heard that Zeeya Mera...

Flying pig. [ Image: clipartfest.com ] Why aren’t there any particles that fall up in the gravitational field of Earth? It would be so h...

The Particle Zoo: The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Reality By Gavin Hesketh Paperback Edition Quercus (15 Jun. 2017) A few we...

“Dear Dr. B, Why do physicists worry so much about the black hole information paradox, since it looks like there are several, more mundane...

Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Da Capo Press (March 28, 2017) (UK Edition, Allen Lane (22 Sept. 2016)) I w...

Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab Tommaso Dorigo World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd (November 17, ...

A week or so ago, a list of perverse incentives in academia made rounds. It offers examples like “rewarding an increased number of citations...

According to Nick Bostrom of the Future of Humanity Institute, it is likely that we live in a computer simulation . And one of our bigge...

Dark matter filaments, Millenium Simulation Image: Volker Springel A few months ago, Erik Verlinde published an update of his 2010 idea...

Chad Orzel recently pointed me towards an article in Physics World according to which “ Dark energy emerges when energy conservation is viol...