I was saddened today upon hearing of the death of Franco Rimondi, a colleague in the CDF experiment. Franco was a professor of physics at the university of Bologna since 1980. His research in…

http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5431  Search for Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV "_We report results from searches for neutral Higgs…

Driving in Circles People often wonder whether the world would be able to do something about its dependence on oil and its effects on the environment. A child asked the following question on Hidden…

As I sit here with a Cesária Évora CD on in the house, I have an update to the car AV system issue, wherein it couldn’t stop playing Bob Dylan. That is, I found out why it’s playing a…

Every year since 1990, I have made a holiday card sending it to friends and family (a list of ~ 50). They have always been nerdy. I try and feature something about the physics I figured out in the…

I missed reporting it when it happened at the end of November, but a group of Indian fishermen caught a rather larger squid than they were expecting: This rare squid, caught by the fishermen of King…

"[...] practically nobody took very seriously the CDF claim (not even mostmembers of the collaboration, and I know several of them), while practically everybody isnow convinced that the Higgs boson…

There isn't really much geologically significant about this photo, other than that the castle is Made of stone.  However, I wanted to finish this week of photos instigated by Evelyn in Wales,…

Christmas is one week away, and so here, for all Science 2.0 readers, is a picture of variegated Holly (Ilex aquifolium).  I took it on the 10th of December this year, just as the weather was…

At the outset, let me  begin with some preliminaries: Consider an evolving spherically symmetrical fluid and divide it into concentric spheres in such a manner that, despite evolution, the…

Ethnopharmacognosy           Includes the study of traditional concepts or methods for distinguishing between various plant parts such as bark, leaves,…

A photo from France today, the penultimate day of Evelyn's photo a day week. I apologise if this is a little late, I am writing this from the first train of my 13 hour epic journey home for Christmas…

Different countries participate in annual negotiations . Countries are represented by the Heads of state , or ministers of environment, or ministers of forests . They make commitments. NGOs look for…

Different countries participate in annual negotiations . Countries are represented by the Heads of state , or ministers of environment, or ministers of forests . They make commitments. NGOs look for…

Think Christmas has gotten way too secular?  Turkey may be the place you want to move because they make sure kids stick with religion, though the 2.2% who are not Muslim will be tough to find so…

The energy from those Russian warheads I feared as a child is coming to me right now. However, it is coming at a much slower and more controlled rate than I had originally feared. In fact, that…

I'm getting my geophoto today in early, as it is the lab's Christmas party tonight... Today's photo is of Iguazú Falls, which straddle the Argentina/Brazil border (spelt Iguaçu on the Brazilian side)…

For Thursday's contribution to Evelyn's photo meme, I present the Isle of Skye. Skye was perhaps my favourite field trip of my undergrad.  We stayed in cabins out in the middle of nowhere, by…

Day three of Evelyn's geophoto a day, and today we are in Greece. This photo was taken early one winters day as we were preparing to head out into the field.  At first glance, the geology in…

If a crime occurs, asking the criminal what happened is unlikely to give you the most accurate picture of events.  This is why police interview the victim first.    So an evolutionary…