Betting a grand on the existence or not of new physics is cool, but one does not need to be that daring (or to be that daring every other day) to enjoy the game of making predictions for what the…

Some unforeseen Christmas-vigil blog activity bringing here a few visitors more than average was traced today back to BBC News, who discussed the 2010 science highlights here. The incoming link is…

A reader of this blog asked in the comments thread of a recent piece the following interesting question: "Assuming mH = 201 GeV/c2, how many Higgses shoud have been produced atthe Tevatron by now…

As sure as death and taxes, and as timely as a Swiss watch, the Tevatron collider never ceases to awe us. Well into its twentysixth year of life, the aged and celebrated proton-antiproton collider…

Ten years ago the trilobite molecule came into the Physics media, like Physics News, Physical Review focus etc. It reappeared about a year ago, in fact in Nature. I am planning to demonstrate here…

An expert is a man who has made all of the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. Niels Bohr

You haven't seen any new hardcore physics posts entering this blog in recent weeks. Reason is a new role in my professional life, combined with a new science project that I have started in my spare…

A faithful reader of this blog has been asking me for answers to some of the 42 questions which were given at an exam for particle physics researcher wannabes in Italy in 2005. I already provided…

There exists a tendency in nature to reduce complexity via modularization. This tendency grows when more modules become available. Finally this tendency enables nature to create intelligent and very…

This is the last of the four part series about the Edge discussion between Lee Smolin and Leonard Susskind. I previously discussed the physics and the philosophical issues. You will have by now…