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The current Standard Model of particle physics begins to unravel when probed much beyond the range of current particle accelerators. So no matter what the Large Hadron Collider finds, it is going to ...

One of my favorite quotes about science comes not from a practicing scientist but from a comedian, Dara O’Briain. He brilliantly summarized the whole point of science and how it makes progress: ...

The field of physics may be turned on its head soon, said renowned physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed during a live lecture from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. For one, ...

In Switzerland, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists smash protons together at close to the speed of light in the hopes of revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. If they succeed, ...

The Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics presents a public lecture on Tuesday, July 26th at 7 p.m. in Duane Physics, Room G1B30. Presented by: Leon Balents, (KITP/UCSB) Abstract: ...

ON April 19 last, Sir Oliver Lodge gave the nineteenth Kelvin lecture to the Institution of Electrical Engineers. 1 When he gave the fifth Kelvin lecture in 1914, he chose as his subject the ...

It seems like everybody wants a revolution in energy tech. From Green New Deal proponents to Palo Alto’s pundits where we hear that “clean tech” is on the cusp of “a 10x exponential process which will ...

Rogue black holes kicked from their galactic lairs are among the surprising predictions made by physicists using powerful computers to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity. David Appell ...

Is there any point in trying to predict the future? For instance, 21 May 2011 came and went the same as all previously trumpeted dates for 'the rapture' in Christianity: the world did not end and the ...