Sheldon Cooper is named after two people: physicist Leon Cooper and – with apologies to Sheldon Glashow – the film actor and producer Sheldo...

Sheldon Cooper is named after two people: physicist Leon Cooper and – with apologies to Sheldon Glashow – the film actor and producer Sheldo...
Even followers of stations such as Fox News could learn about a story that makes my homeland look like a banana republic: Czech president co...
There have been numerous stories of the same kind (even on this blog) but they apparently never stop coming. Sir Ranulph Fiennes (63) decide...
LHC news: CMS released two papers with 20/fb of the 8 TeV 2012 data. Remarkably enough, both the dijet paper (Figure 5) and the dilepton p...
And pairs of opposing large continents may have been more typical than a single unified one Tons of articles including one at NPR have bee...
The black hole firewall saga has continued with several new papers. Since the last blog entry about the topic, three Japanese authors pro...
I wanted to find a nice function that gives a satisfactory description of the carbon dioxide concentration as a function of time. Mauna Loa,...
Guest blog by David Berenstein , Assoc. Prof. in Santa Barbara It’s a fine day for the Universe to die, and to be new again! Well, maybe no...
Off-topic: Yuri Milner, Facebook's Zuckerberg, and Google's Brin launched a Life Sciences counterpart of the Milner Prize, the sam...