I've chosen to stay out of the 2008 election mania, mostly because it is not really my area of expertise. Both Obama and McCain have always struck me as basically ... Read More

Nov. 2, 1929 - Canadian-American physicist Richard E. Taylor is born. Taylor shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics for work in particle scattering that helped lead to the quark ... Read More

Dr. Stephen Hawking is the most famous and recognizable living physicist in the world. Within the world of physics, he rose to prominence with his work on black holes, applying ... Read More

Searching for the structure of the cosmos has lead to the discovery of dark matter, but now there may be a new insight related to this exotic material that helps ... Read More

After reading Alan Lightman's wonderful A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit, I was motivated to read a bit more on the life of CalTech physicist Richard ... Read More

Oct. 22, 4004 BC - According to a 17th century chronology of world history by Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, the universe is created. Needless to say, the specificity ... Read More

I strongly believe in the power of mentorship. Among other things, strong mentorship can help when you run into the challenges that we all face, which can make us ... Read More

I've grown to be quite a fan of the PBS series NOVA. On the most recent episode, the commercial for next week's episode indicated that it would be called "Parallel ... Read More

Every year, I enjoy getting my geek on by letting my true nature out ... by being someone else on Halloween. These resources will help those science geeks out ... Read More

Oct. 15, 1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation. Oct. 17, 1887 - German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff dies. Kirchhoff worked extensively in the fields of electricity, spectroscopy, and thermal ... Read More

Physicist Michio Kaku had a nice editorial in Forbes, "Beauty Is Truth," where he discusses the symmetry relationships recognized in the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics in near-poetic language. Symmetries ... Read More

This morning, the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics. The winners, as announced by the Nobel Committee, are: Half to Yoichiro Nambu "for the ... Read More

Oct. 9, 1604 - Supernova 1604 occurs, which is the most recent supernova to take place within the Milky Way galaxy. Oct. 9, 1873 - German physicist & astronomer Karl Schwarzschild ... Read More

On October 7, the Nobel Prize committee will announce their 2008 selection for the Nobel Prize in Physics. What is your guess for the candidate for this upcoming award? Reuters ... Read More

NASA is running a challenge to college students to design tool packages for the upcoming moon rover which will go on the missions for NASA's return to the moon. ... Read More

The MacArthur Fellowships - referred to by some as the "Genius Grant" - have been awarded for 2008 and physicists of various stripes have earned four of the 25 fellowships. ... Read More