Conference of Science Journalists in London, but I thought I’d give my take on the meeting. I chaired a session entitled “Blogs, big physics and breaking news”, which examined the challenges that ...

This is Tom's fault (Swans on Tea). He suspects that most of the physics blogs are read by physics bloggers. I have kind of been avoiding this, but I guess I need to know who my readers are. Actually, ...

In July 2004 security and safety fears led to the temporary closure of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the original home of the atomic bomb. Months passed and parts of the lab remained shut ...

In December 2004, the particle physics community started a bold and somewhat unusual initiative. Called Quantum Diaries, it was to be a Web site weaving together the online diaries of dozens of ...

Way back in to 2002, long before bloggers wrote New York Times Magazine articles about themselves, anonymous blogging was all the rage. Since then, blogging has become a route to stardom, or least ...

Let's face it, the biggest and most important physics discovery in the past 30 years is old news. So let's move on to the next sexiest physics mystery, who exactly is going get science's biggest prize ...

Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider on the border of France and Switzerland may be on the verge of announcing the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson, the so-called God particle that ...

Rhett Allain can see physics in everyday life. But for his students at Southeastern Louisiana University, some of the concepts were a bit trickier to grasp. What started as a project to help students ...