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Chemistry of the Quantum Kind
Chemistry of the Quantum KindToday’s post is about some cool chemistry – very cool. About 0.01°Kelvin, as a matter of fact (that is, one hundredth of a degree above absolute zero). Physics experiments...
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Weekend Diversion: Discovering the Universe
Weekend Diversion: Discovering the Universe"The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination. It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than...
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What Everyone Should Know about the Universe on the eve of Planck
What Everyone Should Know about the Universe on the eve of Planck"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical...
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NASA Astrophysics Roadmap: The Next 30 Years
NASA Astrophysics Roadmap: The Next 30 YearsWhat are Origami Nanosat Telescopes? How about Kinetic Inductance Detectors? More importantly, what should we do with them?NASA's Astrophysics is doing a...
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Outer Planets’ Stormy Weather: All on the Surface
Outer Planets’ Stormy Weather: All on the SurfaceHave you complained about the weather recently? On the gas giants at the edges of our solar system, Uranus and Neptune, hurricane-like storm systems as...
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Physical Benefits
Physical BenefitsOf the four new articles online on our website, three happen, purely by accident, to be on physics research. The three are very different, and yet each is an illustration of the ways...
View ArticleSo You Want To Be An Astrophysicist? Part 1.5: thinking about grad school, redux
So You Want To Be An Astrophysicist? Part 1.5: thinking about grad school, reduxSo, now you’re at university, and you’re thinking about heading for grad school … A seasonal revisit of some old...
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Flow, Beauty and Mystery (and two new haikus)
Flow, Beauty and Mystery (and two new haikus) Today’s new articles involve flow: the flow of positrons through the Universe and the flow of particles around the tiny cilia of corals. They involve...
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Useful Things
Useful ThingsBecause I must trim browser tabs, here is a current short list of things that might be useful:Threebody - online implementation of the open source IAS15 integrator - a 15th order high...
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The Poetry of Science IV
The Poetry of Science IV Manot Cave cranium With a skull and Keats, there was little choice but to write about the new online items in rhyme. So with apologies to Shakespeare, Keats and the scientists,...
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