Nov. 27, 1701 - Anders Celsius is born. The Swedish inventor and astronomer is best known for the Celsius temperature scale that he devised. Nov. 29, 1803 - Christian Doppler is ... Read More

In 1998, I received a gift from my grandmother just as I was entering my final semester of undergraduate work in physics. The gift was a book entitled The ... Read More

Great minds think alike, and it looks like the folks over at Popular Science have also decided that the Thanksgiving bird is a good source of scientific interest. In ... Read More

The staple food of Thanksgiving is, of course, the Thanksgiving turkey. Almost everyone, however, has had to suffer through dry, tough turkey meat at some point in their life. ... Read More

Nov. 23, 1837 - Dutch scientist and physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals is born. The van der Waals' forces are named after him, and he is known for ... Read More

The journal Nature reports a measurement of interference of single photons, limited in precision only by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Find out more about this measurement in the following ... Read More

Nov. 15, 1630 - German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler dies. Kepler's laws defined the motion of planetary orbits about the sun, which were confirmed by the more detailed ... Read More

Findings from the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina have helped pinpoint the source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, which are the most energetic particles known in the universe. A ... Read More

A while back, I walked into my local comic shop and noticed a book sitting on a shelf with a picture of Albert Einstein clearly on the cover. Looking ... Read More

Nov. 7, 1492 - A meteorite crashes to Earth around noon in a wheat field near Ensisheim, Alsace. The Ensisheim Meteorite is the oldest meteorite with a known date of ... Read More

In the October 31 journal Nano Letters, there was one research paper which seemed to get far more attention than any of the others, even making an appearance on ABC's ... Read More

Oct. 30, 1941 - German physicist Theodor Wolfgang Hansch is born. He shared half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on laser-based precision spectroscopy, which ... Read More