Since 1995, when the first confirmed exoplanet was discovered, the hunt for these curious little extrasolar planets has captured the imagination of many astronomers. According to various accounts, anywhere between ... Read More

Astronomers have detected a new first - a "ghost" image of high energy radiation which, they believe, is a remnant of a massive explosion that formed a distant supermassive black ... Read More

Recently, the string theorist Lubos Motl complained about the "proliferation of crackpots on hep-th" ... an idea which actually coincided with some concerns of mine in recent days. Not being a ... Read More

Two weeks ago, the word was that Austria planned to cease its funding of CERN, the European particle physics institute that runs the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and has been ... Read More

I normally don't promote videos from YouTube, but in this case I honestly can't resist. This particular video depicts the classic Super Mario World video game, but with Mario splitting ... Read More

There are a number of blogs that discuss the latest news in science and theoretical physics (many focusing on string theory and the related debate). I'll begin keeping a list ... Read More

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched two space telescopes today, Herschel and Planck, with the goal of looking back in time to gain information about what the universe looked like ... Read More

With the recent stimulus package and the administration's emphasis on science development, companies are looking for ways to cash in. One such company is the Mohave Sun Power company, which ... Read More

In response to budget problems that are part of the global economic issues, Austria announced on Friday that it would be pulling out of The European Organization for Nuclear Research ... Read More

Many physicists are drawn into the field because of an initial love of science fiction, and more than a few physicists can trace their initial fascination directly to Star Trek. ... Read More

World renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking is making a good recovery from his recent respiratory infection, according to a report from Cambridge News Online, which received the information from Hawking's daughter, ... Read More

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke about President Obama's speech at the National Academy of Sciences, reaffirming his commitment to science. I just realized that when I wrote that ... Read More

An intriguing documentary, Quantum Hoops, explores the CalTech basketball team - a team that runs a 245 game losing streak that stretches back to 1985. But as the losses become ... Read More

Back in February, University of Manchester's "rock star" physicist Brian Cox (no, not Brian May) gave a speech on the status of the Large Hadron Collider at the TED U ... Read More

Last week, MIT's news office released "Physics tackles a complex problem: how to diversify," making it clear that the MIT Physics department is specifically seeking ways to increase the diversity ... Read More