If you're like me, you've probably never even heard of dwarf spheroid galaxies before, let alone realized that their formation was a significant outstanding question in modern cosmology. In fact, ... Read More

A new online journal, Rejecta Mathematica, has recently gone online with the express purpose of providing a home for mathematics research papers that have been rejected by the traditional peer ... Read More

A couple of videos with Nobel Laureates have come to my attention in the last few days, and I always love hearing these guys (or anyone who truly understands it) ... Read More

It happened, friends. Last week, when they announced the 61st Emmy Awards nominations, Jim Parsons was nominated for the role of Sheldon Cooper on CBS's The Big Bang Theory, a ... Read More

One of the most popular and useful sites for physicists is the arXiv portal, where physicists are able to post their "preprints" of papers. These preprints are posted to the ... Read More

Sean Carroll, over at the Cosmic Variance blog, recently had an interesting blog post called Science and Religion Are Not Compatible, focusing largely on the idea that religion makes factual ... Read More

In 2006, physicists developed an "invisibility cloak," using metamaterials that allowed the bending of microwaves around an object, effectively making it resemble empty space. In a recent paper, another group ... Read More

Years ago, astronomers realized that gravity, as it was currently understood, did not quite fit the results observed in our universe. The specific problem was that galaxies rotated at a ... Read More

An intriguing discussion is arising across some physics blogs about the role of philosophy in physics. As Lubos Motl points out (and, before him, Steven Weinberg), the two fields share ... Read More

While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) continues to get the majority of buzz in particle physics news stories (anticipated to start back up in October or so), new research being ... Read More