Fun with Gravitational Waves
Even the Earth – sun system radiates gravitational waves, but just how powerful are they?...
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Fermi's Basement Paradox
Where in the world did Fermi go?
Sneeze Physics Caught in Video
One lab is using slow motion footage of people sneezing to study the physics of these disease-spreading expulsions. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 31, 2016...
Treating the Origins of Life like Physics
A simple proposal for a way to pursue some answers to the origins of life
Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition
Our species just stepped into a cosmic future, yet we still starve and fight each other
Ultrasonic Levitation
Nature Video finds out how to levitate objects using sound waves. Scientists can float objects in mid-air, using just the power of sound. Now, using ultrasonic speakers, they can levitate things with more control than ever before, moving small objects in three dimensions even with the whole array turned upside down...
Earth's Ancient Magnetic Field Just Got a Lot Older
Early magnetism could have helped create conditions to support life
![Brown Dwarf Boasts Brightest Auroras Ever Seen [Slide Show]](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/0D318D03-95F2-4B34-969DB446C5D963FD_agenda.jpg?w=275&h=154&fit=crop)
Brown Dwarf Boasts Brightest Auroras Ever Seen [Slide Show]
Astronomers just spotted auroras on a brown dwarf for the first time, but this is just the latest case of known extraterrestrial auroras
Fossil Fuel Burning Obscures Radiocarbon Dates
Increasing atmospheric carbon from burned fossil fuels will make historic dating more difficult
Forsaken Pentaquark Particle Spotted at CERN
Exotic subatomic particle confirmed at Large Hadron Collider after earlier false sightings
Does a Multiverse Fermi Paradox Disprove the Multiverse?
If we live in a multiverse, then Where Is Everybody Else?
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Watch Live Today: The Man Who Explained the Atom [Video]
The grandson of the great physicist Niels Bohr describes the scientist’s life and work
Science Writer Throwndown: Fear and Loathing of Physics
A tongue-in-cheek blog post on the best and worst scientific fields to write about reveals a disheartening aversion to physics.
Gerard Kuiper's Daring Rescue of Max Planck at the End of World War II
Seventy years ago the renowned astronomer undertook a daring rescue of the renowned physicist as the Red Army swept across a defeated Germany.
Physics Week in Review: May 9, 2015
It’s back, baby! The Large Hadron Collider sees its first low-energy collisions after restarting. A government laboratory found a way to listen to recordings on fragile wax cylinders inside dolls made by Thomas Edison in 1890...
Profile of Steven Weinberg: from The End of Science
In my last post Steven Weinberg, one of history’s greatest physicists, answers questions about progress—or the lack thereof—in particle physics, cosmology and politics...
Physics Week in Review: May 2, 2015
This week, Quanta featured a three-part series on spacetime. Part 1 is by K.C. Cole: Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox. A bold new idea aims to link two famously discordant descriptions of nature...
Physics Week in Review: April 25, 2015
Here’s a treat for fans of movies and the brain: an article called Strange Continuity. Throughout evolutionary history, we never saw anything like a montage.
Physics Week in Review: April 18, 2015
In honor of Tax Day in the US, here is a piece on the IRS’s Favorite Mathematical Law: Armed with Benford’s law, “the IRS can sniff out falsified returns just by looking at the first digit of numbers on taxpayers' forms.” So, beware...
Neutron Stars Serve Up Plates of Nuclear Pasta
Along with black holes, neutron stars are the result of stars collapsing under gravity once their fuel burns out, until their density is about the same as that of the nucleus of an atom, at which point the protons and electrons “melt” into pure neutrons...
