In the next week, I hope to be finishing up two more book reviews ... these things can be fairly heavy reads, and I take great care to get through ... Read More

Collisions between astronomical objects can provide a wealth of information about the universe. Whether it's the collision of stars or of entire galaxies, the findings that astronomers make from ... Read More

An article in Nature, "How to survive in a black hole", explores new analysis of the geometry involved in falling into a black hole and how someone doing so (presumably ... Read More

May 24, 1686 - German physicist and engineer Gabriel Fahrenheit is born. Fahrenheit developed precise thermometers, including those made with mercury. The temperature scale that he created, named ... Read More

An international group of astronomers have identified a region of space 5 billion light-years away, in a galactic cluster with the memorable name C1 0024+17, which has a 26 million ... Read More

According to an article in New Scientist, a group of U.S. scientists have made a major breakthrough in the nascient field of "spintronics," the idea of manipulating and measuring the ... Read More

May 15, 1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his third law of planetary motion. Kepler had initially made the discovery a week earlier, but the initial calculations had caused him ... Read More

In particle physics, the search for the Higgs boson is like the search for the Holy Grail. Two major research facilities are the Tevatron collider at Fermilab and the ... Read More

May 11, 1918 - American physicist Richard Phillips Feynman is born. May 9, 1927 - German biophysicist Manfred Eigen is born. Eigen recieved the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ... Read More