BBC: How small is the universe?

Off-topic: Czech police claims to have found the culprits behind the methanol scandal which killed 25 people in recent weeks (and led the ...

Are black holes surrounded by firewalls?

Dilaton has noticed a new, extremely provocative concept that was introduced among the quantum gravity researchers two months ago: the fire...

EU carbon market will be saved by a new boom of coal

An hour ago, I saw a fascinating article on Patria.CZ , a Czech server for investors, which revealed a highly paradoxical, nearly comical pl...

Klaus in Telegraph: on final stages of destruction of democracy in the EU

The Telegraph is running a story on Czech President Klaus' view on the EU and promotes his new book to appear in the U.K. next week, Vác...

Australia: qubit as a single silicon atom

Peter F. has pointed out the following intriguing experimental advance in quantum computing: Australians Create 1-Atom Silicon Quantum Compu...

Chu and CMS' Incandela's DOE Higgs talk

Steve Chu is going to get some positive TRF publicity. ;-) A week ago, Joe Incandela, the boss of CMS, gave a talk for the Department of Ene...

German biogeochemistry postdoc proposes to extinguish the "unsustainable" Sun

Nathaniel Virgo ( SE ) is a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Jena. His DPhil was about the effect of limited energy ...