dots of many colors
Jen-Luc Piqunt stumbled across an intriguing science news story this morning: it seems that engineers at Ohio State University "have invented a new kind of …
Quantum weirdness
what good is the casimir effect?
I've been culling through my bulging fodder file, discarding all those things I was sure would make for awesome blog posts, but never got around …
books, books, books galore!
A couple of weeks ago, an editor asked me to name my favorite science book from 2010 for a year-end round-up her magazine was putting …
making the break
So, the Spousal Unit took off this morning for a conference somewhere in Wisconsin and left the Resident Feline and I alone with the brand …
birds of a feather
Let me clarify, for the benefit of any concerned readers, that my post over the weekend bidding a fond farewell was not a departure from …
tunnel vision
Stanford physicists are apparently marching to the beat of a nanoscale drummer these days, according to a paper in the February 8 issue of Science. …
the photon has two faces
There was exciting news from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory last week, as researchers announced that they had performed the world's smallest double-slit experiment and …
the photon has two faces
There was exciting news from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory last week, as researchers announced that they had performed the world's smallest double-slit experiment and …
just an ordinary man
We’re a bit late with birthday greetings, but still wanted to weigh in with well wishes as the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory of superconductivity turns 50. …
connecting the dots
Celebrity tabloids and similar gossip rags are filled with unnamed sources — you know, "Sources close to [Insert favorite Celebrity (TM) here] report that…." I've …