Physics

Z' Bosons: The Dream Moves Away The long-distance competition between CERN and Fermilab - between Europe and the US, if you like - for supremacy in the field of fundamental physics is made of direct…

Through a casual browsing of the Arxiv's hep-ph section, I got to read the following title: "CAMORRA: A C++ Library for Recursive Computation of Particle Scattering Amplitudes" Authors are R.Kleiss…

X-ray in characterization techniques 1. X-ray      X-ray is a form of electromagnetic wave with wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nm and energies in the range of 120 eV to 120…

Social networks are a great help for this kind of news: a new paper by a FB friend does not go unnoticed (at least by me) as it once would. I learned today that Garrett Lisi (picture below), the…

Metric mania Which country does not belong in the following list: Burma, Liberia, Somalia, United States? OK, that was not too difficult. As astute Scientific Blogging reader you got that right.…

Theories of physics rest on fundamental assumptions and those assumptions are based on how the real world works, and often produce amazingly precise predictions.  The most comprehensive theory…

Physics and Technology of CCD A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device for the movement of electrical charge from one capacitor to another one developed by W. Boyle and G. Smith in Bell Laboratories…

A neutrino has a mass, physics says, but it is elusive to figure out and extremely hard to measure – a neutrino is capable of passing through a light year (about six trillion miles) of lead without…

Naked girls as you have never seen them before: Eizo, a Japanese company, has an interesting way to advertise their radiological products. I'd comment that seeing underneath clothing might be good…

On July 4th I will speak at ESOF 2010, in Torino (Italy), about the topic of "What's up with peer review: The future of peer review in policy, research and public debates", in a panel which includes…