The other day, I mentioned Neil DeGrasse Tyson's appearance on The Daily Show. Shortly thereafter, I was drawn into the debate ... not by a hate letter from a third ... Read More

In the journal Environmental Health (and reported in a PhysicsOrg.com article), it's been revealed that researchers have discovered low levels of the toxic element mercury in high fructose corn syrup. ... Read More

All physical processes can ultimately be broken down to the basic physics of the situation. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center are trying to use this principle ... Read More

Last night, astrophysicist Neil DeGrass Tyson put in an appearance on Comedy Central's The Daily Show to promote his new book, The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's ... Read More

How many dimensions does our world possess? Lawrence M. Krauss explores just this question, from a wide variety of directions, in his book Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure ... Read More

Recent findings from the University of Buckingham, reported by the BBC, indicate that England's science specialty schools may not really help students specialize in science. Specifically, the report indicates that ... Read More

When you drop a stone into water, it creates a jet of water in its wake, up into the air. An elusive question for physicists, until now, has been why ... Read More

As a change of pace, today I'm going to give our readers the option of helping form some of the content on this site. I recently wrote a definition of ... Read More

At the center of a galaxy lies a massive black hole, but one question for cosmologists is which comes first - the stars that form the galaxy or the black ... Read More

Over a decade ago, two top quantum physicists proposed the holographic principle, which meant that everything in our universe might exist on the boundary of the universe. Today, static noise ... Read More

The cover story of the February 2009 issue of Popular Mechanics is called "NASA & Its Discontents," and relates the story of a group of NASA engineers who are not ... Read More

Quantum effects cause strange things, such as the Casimir-Lifshitz interaction. Now, a team at Harvard has used this effect to create a repulsive force that can be used to create ... Read More

The Large Hadron Collider was one of the biggest news stories of 2009, but there are plans for other types of accelerators which might make such a massive machine completely ... Read More

This week, we review Alex Vilenkin's 2006 book Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes, which explores the cosmological arguments in favor of the anthropic principle. In this book, ... Read More

In science, trying to look ahead with any precision is always difficult. Scientists may have some expectations about what they could find, but who knows if those expectations are at ... Read More