Sahara wants to be a James Bond film, no more than in the secret lair of the bad guy. Actually this lair is not secret at all, and does not want to destroy the world with lasers inside satellites. Instead it is a hazardous waste processing plant. The[…]

Professor Ed Witten gave a series of talks in various departments at the University of Toronto this week. He is arguably the most famous physicist in the world. That is, he is the most well-known physicist amongst physicists, for I doubt that the gen[…]

SCIENCE JOB OF THE WEEK
“You can’t give a baby, acid…”[…]

PROPER SCIENTISTS
These days all sorts of Mickey Mouse pundits, psychologists and the like call themselves scientists. I even see people on Newsnight claiming to be scientists, brazenly sitting their in a suit and tie. It takes the Pukka Pies website[…]

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK — PART 2 OF 2
(This post continues from Do You See?)
Regardless of the follies of both Mysteries From Beyond Earth and Overlords of the UFO, both were perfect examples of the height — in the USA, at least — of t[…]

SUPER SCIENCE PREFIX WATCH
This BBC News item (quelle surprise) mentions the smallest mass detected by scales, and it is really rather impressive. Not however as impressive at finding out that a billionth of a trillionth of a gram is called a ZEPTOGR[…]

The Physics Detective Part Ten — The Mystery Is Solved (and I Hate to Say I Told You So, But …)
I told you so.
We have now reached the end of this two-month mini-blogging journey. Now I can go back to writing to amuse others rather than t[…]

The American Chemical Society held their annual National Meeting last week, March 13 – 17. It was held in San Diego and around nine thousand papers were presented. The ACS and APS (physics) meetings are quite different. At the physics meeting, […]

The Physics Detective Part Nine — de Bruijn is Mr. Cranky
He certainly doesn’t pull any punches.
This week, I started getting a funny feeling that this story will end with Lister declaring that Jaeger committed suicide, or some similar ty[…]

SATURN MOON HAS ATMOSPHERE…
…UNLIKE MOST WETHERSPOON’S PUBS
True in the comedy Russ Abbot sense of atmosphere and pleasingly also true in as much as if the Moon & Sixpence had an atmosphere of just ice particles the drinkers wo[…]