War between NATO and Russia and its allies is a very real possibility.  Not a probability or a likelihood necessarily but much more of a possibility than ever since the aftermath of World War II…

Despite breathless reports by non scientist reporters may say scientist at NIST have not warped time or even really done much that has to do with General Relativity directly. What Toby Bothwell et.…

Protons are the fundamental subatomic particles. Under the Standard Model, we know that protons are composite particles with three valence quarks, which, along with neutrons, form hardons. Protons…

Although unconventional, the ideas of Gregory Ryskin on vacuum energy sound interesting to me, so I invited him to share them with you in this guest post.  Ryskin's physics journey began with…

If you are a follower of Science20, you probably know that  I have always been very liberal in this column about what deserves to be mentioned as a possible new idea in Physics. I even invited…

Bernhard Meirose is a researcher at Stockholm University and associate professor (docent) at Lund University. He has a doctoral degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has…

Dark matter is one of the most fascinating concepts in physics and is thought to account for 85% of the universe’s matter. They have been so talked about that they have taken on a semblance of fact…

Quantum gravity has fascinated scientists for over a century. The term refers to any theory that seeks to describe gravity in the regimes in which quantum effects cannot be disregarded. Scientists…

For 100,000 years, I have written a holiday card which featured ideas I played with that year in Physics. Note, I was reporting that in binary, so for 32 years, or since 1989. Without further ado,…

The title of this post is no news for particle physicists - particle detectors are complex instruments and they work by interpreting the result of stochastic phenomena taking place when radiation…