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Physics Week in Review: April 20, 2013

Source: Scientific American

Furthermore, it’s what’s called a three-sigma result, and while certainly worthy of note, these kinds of signals turn up in particle physics data all the time. Most of them disappear upon subsequent analysis. ...
Full article at: Scientific American  More like this  Apr 20 2013, 6:53am CDT

Stephen Hawking: 'The Big Bang Did Not Need God's Help'

Source: The Huffington Post

The Big Bang was strange, and we still don't understand it, said Professor Stephen Hawking at a speech on Tuesday. But whatever happened in the first seconds of creation, it didn't take God's help . Our universe did not require th ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post  More like this  Apr 18 2013, 3:05am CDT

On Talent in Sports and Science [Uncertain Principles]

Source: ScienceBlogs

Nobody’s ever going to mistake me for an elite basketball player. I’m taller than average (about 6’6″, a hair under 2m in SI units), but I’m not especially quick, or agile, or all that good a jumper. And I’m carryi ...
Full article at: ScienceBlogs  More like this  Apr 16 2013, 9:04am CDT

Dark matter detector reports hints of WIMPs

Source: Science News

Three candidate signals in experiment hundreds of meters underground deemed very preliminary, and exciting DENVER — Ultracold crystals designed to catch particles of dark matter deep underground have come up with three ...
Full article at: Science News  More like this  Apr 15 2013, 6:47pm CDT

Must Watch: Dawkins, Nye, Tyson, and Stephenson Discuss Science and Storytelling

Source: io9.We come from the future.

"Without hyperbole, it is true that i don't think there has ever been on one stage an assembly of science storytellers and communicators like this," said theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss of the panelists assembled for the debate featured ...
Full article at: io9.We come from the future.  More like this  Apr 15 2013, 3:37pm CDT

'The Physics of Wall Street': The Most Arrogant Book in the World? Part 18

Source: Minyanville

Editor's note: The following column is the last part of an ongoing series of articles by Aaron Brown examining the claims made in The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable, a new book by James Owen Weatherall ...
Full article at: Minyanville  More like this  Apr 15 2013, 8:52am CDT



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