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Every time there is any kind of nuclear incident, the media does a hit job on nuclear power. People who support nuclear power and try to put...

For a long time there's been a kind of Cold War with a slow moving front between philosophers and scientists, especially physicists. The...

How do we regulate a revolutionary new technology with great potential for harm and good? A 380-year-old polemic provides guidance. In 1644,...

For a brief period earlier this week, social media and the world at large seemed to stop squabbling about politics and culture and united in...

Since we were on the subject of NMR and determining conformations, I think it would be pertinent to briefly discuss one of the more slippery...

I fell in love with Richard Feynman when I was in middle school. That is when I discovered " Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman &q...

I n the Wall Street Journal, the physics writer Jeremy Bernstein has a fine review of a new joint biography by Gino Segre of George Gamow a...

While I was doing an unrelated search on the Nature website, I came across this intriguing debate about why body temperature is maintained a...

In 1959, physicists Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi advanced a hypothesis about how we could detect signals from extraterrestrial civ...

The day you were born, the world died. Died in glitter and grist, in skeletons and slogans. Scenic Riverside Drive which bequeathed you...