Welcome to the renaissance of quantum mechanics. It took more than a hundred years, but physicists finally woke up, looked quantum mechani...

Boris Johnson The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 disproved the ether, a hypothetical medium that permeates the universe. By using a...

Prompted by last week’s conference (sorry, I meant “unconference”) which saw a lot of climate-related talks, climate modeling, geoenginee...

wormy apple [image: pinclipart.com ] Imagine you bite into an apple and find a beheaded maggot. Yuck! But it could have been worse. Had...

I will be away for a week to attend SciFoo 2019. Please expect blogging to be sparse and comments to be stuck in the queue longer than usual...

This is the 5th and last part in my series to explain why the multiverse is not a scientific hypothesis. The other parts are: 1. Does the Hi...

[Foto: Michael Sentef] Another day, another lecture. This time I am in Hamburg, at DESY, Germany’s major particle physics center. My ...

Colbert’s legendary quadruple facepalm. The nutty physics story of the day comes to us thanks to Michael Brooks who reports for  New Sci...

Chad Orzel is a physics prof whose research is primarily in atomic physics. He also blogs next door and is a good-humored and eminently re...

I am looking for a database specialist to help with our SciMeter project . The candidate should be comfortable with python, SQL, and linux, ...

Rumors are that later this year we will see Google’s first demonstration of “quantum supremacy”. This is when a quantum computer outperforms...

My book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray” was recently translated to French. Today is your chance to win a free copy of the ...

The year is 2049. CERN’s mega-project, the Future Circular Collider (FCC), has been in operation for 6 years. The following is the transcr...

I'll be in the Netherlands for a few days to attend a workshop on " Probabilities in Cosmology ". Back next week. Wish you a g...

LHC magnets. Image: CERN. A few days ago, Scientific American ran a piece by a CERN physicist and a philosopher about particle physicist...

Imagine an unknown disease spreads, causing temporarily blindness. Most patients recover after a few weeks, but some never regain eyesight...

Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum By Lee Smolin Penguin Press (April 9, 2019) Popular scie...

Fermilab g-2 experiment. [Image Glukicov/Wikipedia ] Physicists count 25 elementary particles that, for all we presently know, cannot b...

[ Tam Hunt sent me another lengthy interview, this time with Lee Smolin. Smolin is a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theore...