• Jump! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

    Updated: 2012-08-31 01:59:00
    Cool stuff | Randall Munroe | I have a very odd coincidence to report. I like getting fun questions from folks, the kind that take a little bit of math and physics to explain, but wind up ta.

  • Neil Armstrong: 1930 – 2012 | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

    Updated: 2012-08-31 01:58:53
    NASA | Apollo 11 | The first human to set foot on another world has died. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was 82.There is so much that can be said about this man, from his incr.

  • What is molecular gastronomy?

    Updated: 2012-08-28 09:49:44
    Peter Barham explains how fundamental science can help to produce delicious food

  • What is supersymmetry?

    Updated: 2012-08-24 09:10:41
    Helen Heath explains why SUSY is so beautiful

  • What is dark energy?

    Updated: 2012-08-23 16:15:51
    Luke Davies explains that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate

  • How does quantum teleportation work?

    Updated: 2012-08-22 15:40:30
    John Rarity explains why it is tricky to copy quantum information

  • How can you use X-rays to explore the nanoworld?

    Updated: 2012-08-21 17:25:32
    Annela Seddon explains why X-rays are such a useful imaging tool

  • What is a black hole?

    Updated: 2012-08-17 10:47:50
    Andy Young explains why not even light can escape from black holes

  • SUSY 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-13 11:58:08
    The SUSY 2012 conference starts in Beijing today. It is the biggest supersymmetry conference of the year and we expect to see the latest results using the 5/fb gathered in 2012 at 8 TeV before the last technical stop. Actually at least some of the results have already appeared with three new conference notes from [...]

  • 10/fb LHC Update

    Updated: 2012-08-04 11:40:02
    The Large Hadron Collider has now delivered over 10/fb at 8 TeV during 2012 in the middle of a long 11 week summer run between technical stops. The 10/fb is for ATLAS and CMS but LHCb has also passed 1/fb in 2012 to add to their 1/fb from last year. About 3.5/fb have been added in [...]

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