Progress Towards Celebrity Recognition

Progress Towards Celebrity Recognition

Can software automatically recognise celebrities? Hewlett-Packard (motto: Let’s do Amazing) believes so, and has recently published a paper on the feasibility of ‘Wikipedia-based Online Celebrity…
W Bosons Weighted To One Part In 5359

W Bosons Weighted To One Part In 5359

A couple of weeks ago the CDF and DZERO experiments have produced a combination of their measurements of the W boson mass. Besides two older determinations of this fundamental parameter of the…
Chimp homicide?

Chimp homicide?

Recently, Real Clear Science drew our attention to Chimps show lethal side, about incidents where chimps kill other chimps.  Or “apes kill each other”, as the article actually says, but in my…
SUSY And The Silence Of The (Roasted) Lamb

SUSY And The Silence Of The (Roasted) Lamb

I am just back from a vacation to Greece, where last Sunday was orthodox Easter. My fiancee Kalliopi is Greek, and it was about time for me for me to experience a bit of Greek customs. So we flew to…
Dark Matter Theory Takes A Hit

Dark Matter Theory Takes A Hit

Widely accepted theories of dark matter,  a mysterious invisible substance that can only be detected indirectly by the gravitational force it exerts, expect the solar neighborhood to be filled…