Lego sculpture. By Nathan Sawaya. [ Image Source ] It’s not easy, getting a PhD in physics. Not only must you learn a lot, but some of...

Here is what I did on Easter. For this video I recruited my mom and my younger brother to hold the camera. Not a masterpiece of camera work,...

[image: theskillsfarm.com ] The task of scientists is to find useful descriptions for our observations. By useful I mean that the descri...

The April issue of Scientific American has an article by Tim Folger titled “ Quantum Gravity in the Lab ”. It is mainly about the experime...

Einstein, Superhero Tell a story. That’s the number one advice from and to science communicators, throughout centuries and all over the ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has not found any new, fundamental particles besides the Higgs-boson. This is a slap in the face of thousa...

I will be away next week, giving three talks at Brookhaven National Lab on Tuesday, April 9 , and one at Yale April 10 . Next upcoming...

Another attempt to explain myself. Transcript below. I know you all wanted me to say something about the question of whether or not to ...

Shadow on the wall. Left-right. Forward-backward. Up-down. We are used to living in three dimensions of space. But according to some phy...

I recently got a brilliant question after a public lecture: “If the LHC accelerates protons to almost the speed of light and then collides...

[ Image Source ] I know you’re all sick of hearing me repeat why a larger particle collider is currently not a good investment. Trust me...

I am at home with a cold, and so I finally got around to finish this video on superfluid dark matter which has been sitting on my hard disk ...

I have spent the last few weekends shouting at a foam mat. It’s nothing personal. Foam and I, we normally get along just fine. It’s just tha...

[I have gotten numerous requests by people who want to share Appendix C of my book . The content is copyrighted, of course, but my publisher...

Physics Today has published an essay by Gordon Kane about “The collider question.” Gordon Kane is Professor of Physics at the University o...

Logo of Moriond meeting. “Rencontres de Moriond” is one of the most important annual conferences in particle physics. This year’s meetin...