If this week’s link fest has a theme, it might just be teleportation. I wrote about The Trouble With Teleportation for Nautilus this week, a.k.a., why the pig lizard in Galaxy Quest met with an icky end. The same issue featured a cool science fiction short story in, which one woman faces a tough choice [...]..
There was tons of interesting transport-related stuff at Nautilus this week, including my own post on The Time-Honored Quest to Find the Rules of Time Travel — in which I squee about my favorite new TV series, SyFy’s Continuum...
Physicist Todd Johnson has been working at Fermilab for 30 years, but he also dabbles in art. In the 1990s, he focused on holographic photography. These days -- inspired by a pal who builds Tesla coils in his spare time -- he's all about capturing lightning-like fractal patterns in plastic cubes with the help of a linear accelerator...
Back in 2007, when I'd just moved to Los Angeles, I drove up to San Francisco to visit its signature science museum, the Exploratorium. There were lots of cool exhibits, but my favorite was the cloud chamber...
I've got a new article up at newly relaunched Quanta magazine (it was formerly Simons Science News) on the ongoing hunt for dark matter -- the stuff that makes up roughly one-quarter of all the mass in the universe...
There is much to celebrate this week. For instance: Happy Manhattanhenge! Celebrate with Neil deGrasse Tyson's hand-drawn love letter to the urban miracle.
Holy cow, there was a lot of physics-related news this week! Don't you people realize it's a holiday? Speaking of which, the Fourth of July holiday celebrating U.S.
The Time Lord and I have been vacationing with the family in Hawaii (island of Maui) all week, but Jen-Luc Piquant has nonetheless managed to gather a host of cool physics-ish links for your reading enjoyment anyway...
Physics lost one of its unsung heroes this week with the passing of Kenneth Wilson (1936-2013). What's that? You've never heard of him? You're not alone.
If you missed this week's Virtually Speaking Science, I chatted with astrophysicist (and fellow SciAm blogger) Caleb Scharf in Second Life about black holes, exoplanets, astrobiology, and more...
Confession: Jen-Luc Piquant had a little trouble focusing on this week's roundup of cool physics links because she is emotionally shattered by the latest shocking plot twist on Game of Thrones ...
Back in February, Jen-Luc Piquant chatted with University of Minnesota physicist Jim Kakalios (author of The Physics of Superheroes , among other achievements) in Second Life's Virtually Speaking Science series...
It was yet another week filled with the exciting, the quirky and the just plain interesting in physics.Metals Become Molecular-Like at the Atomic Scale, Reveal Materials Scientists.
A good friend recently asked her social circle for any words of wisdom for her soon-to-be-a-high-school-graduate daughter, with an eye towards presenting said daughter with a book collecting all that wisdom on the special day...
Nature Education launched its expanded SciTable blog network this week, including this post by undergraduate Bruce Braun on searching for Dyson spheres: "Dyson Spheres are hypothetical mega-systems which surround a star in order to absorb energy...
A number of people have been privately asking me about the recent Guardian article (and accompanying Op-Ed by Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy) gushing over a supposedly revolutionary new unified theory of physics by a man who officially left academia 20 years ago...
So much science-y goodness this past week! First up: I have a post at the newly launched Nautilus on the physics of the blues, focusing on the work of J.
Living in Los Angeles for the last six years, I've become quite familiar with the spread of wildfires, with a corresponding deepening respect for Nature's power.
Juggling has advanced enormously in recent decades, thanks in part to the mathematical study of possible patterns
Many viewers who tuned into American Idol on April 4th expected the dismissal of Lazaro Arbos, a likeable young man with an endearing stutter but marginal talent and an unfortunate tendency to forget lyrics...
