Not a black star, but about equally real. I came to physics by accident. I had studied mathematics, but the math department was broke. W...

Have I recently mentioned that I am now proud owner of my personal modified gravity theory ? I have called it “Covariant Emergent Gravity.” ...

Yesterday, the media buzzed with the revelation that Stephen Hawking had completed a paper two weeks before his death. This paper suppo...

I woke up this morning to the sad news that Stephen Hawking has died. His 1988 book “A Brief History of Time” got me originally interested...

You haven’t seen headlines recently about the Large Hadron Collider, have you? That’s because even the most skilled science writers can’...

My US publisher has transferred the final manuscript to my German publisher and the translation is in the making. The Germans settled on the...

Richie Doodles: The Brilliance of a Young Richard Feynman Rare Bird Books (February 20, 2018) I’m weak. I have a hard time saying “no” ...

Natural? I have new front teeth. Or rather, I have a new dentist who looked at the fixes and patches his colleagues left and said they’v...

Galactic structures. Illustris Simulation. [ Image Source ] Most of the mass in the universe isn’t a type of matter we are familiar with...

And what will become of supersymmetric string theory if Susy is bumped off ? — Suhail Manzoor (@suhailski) February 13, 2018 ...

The final proofs are done and review copies were sent out. One of the happy receivers, Emmanuel Rayner, read the book within two days and so...

mini-problem [ answer here ] Scientists solve problems; that’s their job. But which problems are promising topics of research? This is t...