Sept. 30, 1870 - French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin is born. His work on the discontinuous structure of matter (i.e. atomic theory) helped earn him the 1926 Nobel Prize in ... Read More

Scientists in Spain recently made an intriguing discovery while performing experiments on transmitting sound through metal plates. They placed a series of millimeter-thick metal plates in a tank of water ... Read More

September 10 marked the "first beam" in the Large Hadron Collider, CERN's particle accelerator which will be able to get the most energetic collisions obtained by an atom smasher to ... Read More

Sept. 29, 1901 - Italian physicist Enrico Fermi is born. Fermi is considered one of the key figures in the early development of particle physics and quantum physics. He received ... Read More

One of the major benefits (and drawbacks) of living in the modern computer age is the easy access to information. I've reported on universities offering courses online, but this ... Read More

I recently stumbled upon this collection of Alan Lightman's essays in the library and snatched it up. I've actually never read Lightman's work, but have heard of him, and ... Read More

On March 19, 2008, NASA's Swift satellite picked up an unusual gamma ray burst (GRB). The burst of energy from a distant star was detected by other machines across ... Read More

Sept. 20, 1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the inquisition of the Catholic Church on charges of heresy for teaching that the Earth orbits around the sun. Sept. 16, 1736 ... Read More

A group of hackers (called the "Greek Security Team") targeted the Large Hadron Collider website last week, making some cosmetic changes to the website but doing no permanent damage, according ... Read More

Recently, the blogosphere and YouTube have both been swept by the Large Hadron Rap video, detailing the physics related to the Large Hadron Collider. While perhaps not as hip, ... Read More

Stephen Hawking Source: NASA Today, British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 and had some intriguing things to say in reference to the Large Hadron Collider and related topics. One ... Read More

Sept. 10, 1892 - American physicist Arthur Compton is born. Compton received the 1927 Nobel Prize in physics for his work in discovering the Compton effect, a form of scattering ... Read More

September 10, just one week away, marks the official start date for the Large Hadron Collider. This will mark the start of an adventure as we use the world's ... Read More

A little over a year ago, we covered the start of the Galaxy Zoo Project, where net surfers the world over can participate in astronomy by helping to identify galaxy ... Read More

Sept. 1, 1804 - German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovers Juno, one of largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. Sept. 3, 1905 - American experimental physicist Carl David Anderson is born. ... Read More