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Round and Round
Yesterday was the winter solstice, meaning the sun concluded its six-month southward course and seemed to “stand still” before beginning its journey north. Of course, this being a heliocentric...
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High in the Sky
It’s Friday, time to kick back and let ScienceBlogs do your homework for you. On Cognitive Daily, Dave Munger wonders how outfielders are so good at running to the right spot to catch a fly ball—are...
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A Few Head Scratchers
Love it or hate it, physics is a demanding subject. It defines much of our knowledge and experience in a daunting variety of ways. But really, you do love physics, don’t you? On Uncertain Principles,...
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Endless Frontiers of Science
Science is knowledge, and knowledge can inspire certainty. But certainty, as much a fruit of science, can be its enemy. Whatever wonders may meet the eye, there has always been more to the world. On...
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Olympian Physics
Equations can hurt, although not as much as wiping out on the downhill or faceplanting in the halfpipe. On Dot Physics, Rhett Alain explains the amazing angles at which Apolo Ohno leans around the...
View ArticleScience at the World Cup: Tourette’s Syndrome and Vuvuzelas
Team USA’s World Cup dreams may have been dashed by Ghana over the weekend, but there’s nary a bad word to be said by the performance of its goalkeeper, Tim Howard, who again proved he’s capable of...
View ArticleMaking Atoms Cold
While the superstar of the particle physics world, the Large Hadron Collider, gets all of the attention (and the glamor shots), there’s plenty of interesting science that can be done on the atomic...
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Reaching for the Moon
The moon entrances us—it is near yet far away, familiar, yet unremittingly mysterious. In synchronous rotation, it has a face it never shows. It pulls the oceans; it stirs the blood. It beckons into...
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Making Waves
On Built on Facts, Matt Springer writes that “there’s really no such thing as a purely continuous monochromatic light wave” and “any pulse of light that lasts a finite amount of time will actually...
View ArticleDouble Negative Kelvin
Reports that researchers elicited a temperature “lower than absolute zero” might make one question the meaning of the word absolute. On Built on Facts, Matt Springer writes “temperature is a...
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