MIT quantum computer scientist Seth Lloyd makes a bold (if somewhat unfocused) presentation in Nature Physics: that the intellectual atmosphere that led to the viewpoint of inherited traits as discrete ... Read More

Princeton senior Xiaohang Quan, while working on her senior thesis, uncovered a miscalculation in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ... specifically, in the hardware that comprises the Compact Muon Solenoid ... Read More

A recent study from Dario Benedetti, a physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, indicates that the geometry of spacetime may have fractal qualities - that ... Read More

Physicist Lee Smolin, author of the 2007 book The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, has been awarded the ... Read More

A recent report has ruled out the existence of the Higgs boson in the energy realm of 160-170 GeV, which was seen by some as the "sweet spot" of where ... Read More

French physicist and philosopher Bernard d’Espagnat (age 87) was just awarded the 2009 Templeton Prize, set this year at approximately $1.4 million in U.S. dollars. d’Espagnat certainly has an impressive ... Read More

Comedian Steve Martin has offered to fund an off-campus production of his play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, after it was canceled at Oregon's Le Grande High School due to ... Read More

One of the most intriguing potential developments in the upcoming future of technology are quantum computers, which would allow processing speeds unmatched by even today's most advanced computers. In Programming ... Read More

Some graduate students have been hit hard by the various hold-ups at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which have delayed the start-up from last September (already later than expected) all ... Read More

Over at Newsarama is an interview with Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios, scientific advisor on the comic-based film Watchmen. Kakalios is a great choice because of his book The Physics ... Read More

Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper on CBS's The Big Bang Theory, is one of the most entertaining characters on television in some time. The show regularly hits all the ... Read More

On Feb. 11, physicist Frank Shoemaker, Princeton University emeritus physics professor, died at in Hightstown, N.J.. Shoemaker, an experimental particle physicist, served from 1952 to 1989 on the staff of ... Read More

As President Obama promised in his inaugural address, science sees a prominent role in his vision for America's future. The recent stimulus package passed, despite a very vocal amount of ... Read More

Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is growing in leaps and bounds, as a number of prominent theoretical physicists continue to get hired on to research positions at the Institute. ... Read More