AMS: the steep drop is very likely there

Reconstructing the dark matter particle from sloppily censored data On Wednesday, Sam Ting gave the talk about AMS-02 at CERN . If you misse...

AMS-02 seems to overcautiously censor solid evidence for dark matter

The case for a \(350\GeV\) neutralino strong but probably made look weaker Quick links: the new AMS-02 paper (open access); liveblog from...

Sasha Polyakov joins the Milner Prize winners

Off-topic, cosmology: Planck, the WMAP's successor, has released the data: press release , BBC , published papers , real time , data , ...

Pierre Deligne wins Abel Prize

Viscount Pierre Deligne of Belgium won the $1 million Abel Prize, a major award given to mathematicians, today . It's a well-deserved h...

Greene et al.: too large landscapes are unstable

For years, I've been intrigued by the general idea that the usual KKLT arguments – supporting the view that the number of vacuum (dS or...

Michio Kaku's confusing Higgs remarks

I partly but not quite agree with Sean Carroll 's and Matt Strassler 's criticisms of this CBS interview ( HTML ) with Michio Kaku, ...

Tyson vs Greene: a lesson in demagogy

Someone sent me the following video. Indeed, it turned out to have a large capacity to make me upset. The exchange between Brian Greene and ...