On a lake in southern Germany
I am spending this week on an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany at the 58th meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau
A real gem on arXiv
I spent an hour or so this morning trawling through the arXiv preprint server where I spotted "Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila"...
Going once…a first edition of Copernicus’s magnum opus
Most of you will never have raised an arm at Christie's auction house...
Beauty in simplicity
What would you choose as the most beautiful science experiment ever performed? Some Physics World readers...
Canadian firm shelves isotope reactors
The sad saga of the MAPLE nuclear reactors may have finally come to a close...
US public say yes to science debate
I'm sorry to say that this snippet of news about ScienceDebate 2008 escaped my attention...
Oh brother, where art thou?
I wonder if many other scientists under the wing of the Holy See agree with Jose Gabriel Funes...
The return of the 'Science Warrior'
Plugging his new book in Bristol, UK, last night was arch-rationalist Alan Sokal...
Who cares if it’s not even wrong?
"So what would you do if string theory is wrong?" asks string theorist Moataz Emam in a paper posted on arXiv yesterday...
Is this the youngest professor ever?
Alia Sabur has allegedly broken the record for the world's youngest professor...
