Nobel-prize trivia
Who's the only physicist to have won a Nobel Prize for Literature?...
World's largest ever geological mapping project launched today
I was intrigued to see how this project will improve how scientists interact...
Room temperature ice – deja vu?
In their latest work, they concentrate on the stucture of the water itself...
NASA the party-pooper
Fifty years ago today, US President Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation that created NASA...
Physics TV
Robotic rats, electric eels and teacher training are just three of the topics covered...
Racing with the Sun
UPDATE: The race was won by the Michigan solar car, which travelled from Dallas to Calgary in a little under 52 hours....
'What a long strange trip it's been'
The Grateful Dead's famous lyric describes exactly how I feel after reading a paper on the arXiv preprint server...
A pawn in the string wars?
The July 21 issue of The New Yorker landed on my doormat this morning...
Putting the 'Warp' into Warp Drive
Tabloid headlines like "Physicists want to annihilate Jupiter to reach Rigel 7" will do the physics community no good...
Reliving the 'Victorian Internet'
Sending messages around the world by telegram seems very much old hat...
