• Today’s physics news: Biggest science prize takes web tycoon from social networks to string theory

    Updated: 2012-07-31 10:27:26
    Today’s physics news: Biggest science prize takes web tycoon from social networks to string theory Biggest science prize takes web tycoon from social networks to string theory Yuri Milner awards make nine fundamental physics pioneers rich. But founder denies new prizes are Nobels 2.0 Guardian Electronic sensor rivals sensitivity of human skin Devices inspired by [...]

  • Today’s physics news: Flaring black holes may solve cosmic ray puzzle and more

    Updated: 2012-07-30 10:06:57
    Today’s physics news: Today’s physics news: Flaring black holes may solve cosmic ray puzzle and more Flaring black holes may solve cosmic ray puzzle Swallowing stars might cause otherwise weak galactic black holes to have violent outbursts, generating spurts of high-energy rays New Scientist Seven minutes of terror for Curiosity rover’s descent to Mars A [...]

  • Music and physics collide in Devon

    Updated: 2012-07-30 09:00:55
    IOP’s outreach team Physics in the Field hit Chagstock Festival, near Chagford, Devon last Friday and Saturday, and proceeded to wow and amaze with physics tricks such as tornado tubes, balloon kebabs and many others. The small music festival hosted around 5000 people over the course of the weekend, and festivalgoers got to see (a delayed) [...]

  • Strings 2012

    Updated: 2012-07-28 21:42:19
    The big yearly string theory conference was held this year in Munich over the past week. Strings 2012 was the latest in a series of conferences that started more than 20 years ago. I’ve now written something about so many … Continue reading →

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    Updated: 2012-07-28 10:18:00
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  • Peter Dougherty on The Global University Press

    Updated: 2012-07-26 20:07:57
    New in Print March Mathness Election 101 PUP Home Blog Jul 26 2012 Peter Dougherty on The Global University Press by Brianne Colombo Filed in : Princeton University Press Publishing Twitter 3:07pm EST Peter Dougherty , director of Princeton University Press and newly appointed president of the Association of American University Presses wrote a piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education this : week Back in the 60s , an academic in New Delhi , on being introduced to the president of Princeton , greeted him politely by asking if his employer had any connection with Princeton University Press . Such was the reputation of a single American university press and its books at a time not so long . ago The modern world’s understanding of itself has long been shaped by university-press books—whether

  • Today’s physics news: Facebook ‘likes’ the scientific method and more

    Updated: 2012-07-26 09:40:26
    Today’s physics news: Facebook ‘likes’ the scientific method and more Facebook ‘likes’ the scientific method Social-networking giant may allow researchers to check the data underlying its studies Nature Tidy close-match star system holds planetary pinball clue We are not alone – in one sense at least. A trio of planets orbiting a sun-like star has [...]

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    Updated: 2012-07-24 08:12:38
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  • Two New Experimental Results

    Updated: 2012-07-18 15:07:53
    Today brings news of two new experimental results, both consistent with the Standard Model: At the Higgs Hunting 2012 conference starting today, ATLAS reports results from the WW decay channel for the Higgs. At the July 4 joint announcement, CMS … Continue reading →

  • Implications of LHC Results

    Updated: 2012-07-16 18:37:01
    The past few days at CERN there has been a workshop on Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics. This is the third in a series of these workshops, which have a goal of evaluating the implications of LHC results … Continue reading →

  • Short Items, Higgs-free

    Updated: 2012-07-07 20:49:21
    The Simons Foundation has some more wonderful interviews with mathematicians. There’s one with Pierre Deligne, and another with Robert MacPherson. The MacPherson piece describes not just mathematics, but also the unusual personal and professional collaboration of MacPherson and his student … Continue reading →

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