Higgs Classification Challenge Status

Higgs Classification Challenge Status

I reported here a few days ago about a very nice challenge issued by the ATLAS experiment: find Higgs boson decays to tau lepton pairs in a sample containing signal as well as background events,…
How Signals Trigger Cancer Cells To Spread

How Signals Trigger Cancer Cells To Spread

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls their ability to invade nearby tissues in a finely…
Advanced Light

Advanced Light

Michael Lewis's bestselling book "Flash Boys" describes how some brokers, engaging in high frequency trading, exploit fast telecommunications to gain fraction-of-a-second advantage in the buying…
A Tale of Two Phobias

A Tale of Two Phobias

For some time now in Britain, our “great and good” have been belabouring the more conservative part of our population [1] with accusations of Islamophobia and Homophobia.  The implication of…