Physical Sciences

Anthropic Principle Physics: New Paper Says Universe Situated For Human Life

variations... under the reasonable assumption that the masses of all quarks and leptons appearing in neutron ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 5:44pm

ESA Scientists Recollect the Historic Landing on Titan 10 Years Ago

to Earth and dump the precious data.” "When the first data arrived, all the technical problems ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 25 2015 - 11:27am

Exposure To BPA – It’s Not What Some People Think

and the European Food Safety Authority on the safety of BPA.   Based on careful analysis of all ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Jan 29 2015 - 12:06pm

Acoustic Power: The Surprising Efficiency Improvements In The Violin Over Time

natural mutation," Makris says. "All of these subtle parameters of shape, we've modeled, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2015 - 10:12pm

Buy New Textbooks Again? Pluto May Go Back To Planet Status

the solar system; they may contain, together, the most total surface area of all the solid-surfaced ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 26 2015 - 10:30am

Guest Post: Daniel Hoak, Gravitational Waves: How We Did It

calculated using only the SNR, and the background rate for that SNR is marginalized over all of the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 19 2016 - 5:37am

Guess The B Fraction!

statistic. This can be computed once Pablo will have spun all the QCD Monte Carlo, obtaining the true values ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 22 2016 - 10:22am

Odds of Intelligent life on the TRAPPIST-1 planets: NOT Great.

all.   It’s not as if we have sent a probe to look at that solar system up close.   So, anyone who says ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 21 2016 - 4:23pm

A Colloquium At Northwestern

and Ian. In all cases we had very interesting conversations about their research and selected topics ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2016 - 4:05pm

Physics World's Review Of "Anomaly!"

Without Pauli’s principle all electrons would settle in the lowest-energy orbit around atomic nuclei; that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 9 2017 - 7:27am