As the year winds up, I find myself looking through various magazines, websites, and television shows, to see how well About.com Physics covered some of the top stories discussed in ... Read More

Jan. 3, 1486 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests an experimental flying machine. Jan. 4, 1643 - English physicist, alchemist, and government official Sir Isaac Newton is born. Newton's accomplishments ... Read More

One of the iconic images of the holiday season is the Star of Bethlehem which, according to the Gospel of Matthew, guided the wise men (it doesn't say how many, ... Read More

Dec. 27, 1571 - Johannes Kepler, German mathematician and astronomer, is born. Kepler is best known for developing Kepler's three laws of planetary motion. Dec. 28, 1612 - Galileo Galilei discovers ... Read More

No, we aren't talking about the television show - although this is a somewhat amusing show which occasionally brings up some mildly intriguing scientific analogies - but rather the scientific ... Read More

While plumbing the various "best of" lists for 2007 physics stories, I came across this one from the fine folks over at ScienceNOW. According to a June study by ... Read More

CERN has just announced its new director, German particle physicist Rolf-Dieter Heuer. According to the official announcement, Heuer will be taking charge in January 2009 for a 5-year term. ... Read More

Dec. 19, 1714 - American astronomer John Winthrop is born. Winthrop was one of the first American scientists to be taken seriously in Europe, and had close ties to the ... Read More

Dec. 14, 1546 - Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, mentor to Johannes Kepler, is born. Dec. 10, 1684 - Edmund Halley reads a paper entitled "De motu corporum in gyrum" ("On the ... Read More

Two separate findings of note were released this week which, at first glance, seem to contradict each other. University of Utah at Salt Lake City researchers have proposed that the dark ... Read More

On December 16 & 17, the television stations BBCWorld will be running a show called Nobel Minds which is apparently an annual show that shows a dialogue with Nobel Laureates ... Read More

Dec. 6, 1778 - French physicist & chemist Joseph Luis Gay-Lussac is born. Dec. 5, 1901 - Physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg is born. Heisenberg was key in the development ... Read More

In many prevailing theories of dark matter, there is much more dark matter than suggested by observational evidence. Such models, according to McMaster University researcher Sergey Mashchenko, do well ... Read More