Category: Highlights

Over the holiday period, the physics arxiv blog is re-running the most popular blogs (by page views) of 2007. The frightening prospect of flu 23 November Bird flu may get all the headlines but the number of deaths it causes each year is currently measured in hundreds. The real killer, the one that should set…

Over the holiday period, the physics arxiv blog is re-running the most popular blogs (by page views) of 2007. Game theory and the future of Adwords 8 September Ain’t Google Adwords a miracle o’ modern science? Here’s a system that searches your web page for keywords, hunts for advertisers who wanna have their message displayed…

Over the holiday period, the physics arxiv blog is re-running the most popular blogs (by page views) of 2007. The incredible galactic foxtrot 30 August Ya’ll know the laws of physics are symmetrical–they have no preferred direction. The speed of light (and more or less everything else) is the same whichever way it is pointin’,…

This week’s posts:  Why MHD propulsion won’t work The puzzling presence of DIBs The sunset on HD 189733b Tune into the snowflake channel Black holes may convert dark matter into cosmic rays

…this week’s posts: Pencil ‘n’ Paper The best of the rest The fractal drip wars Academics fight it out over Pollock The encouraging habitability of exoplanets Changing the way we define habitable should make us look again at some exoplanets Does surgery cause cancer to metastasize? Statistical evidence emerges that it might WiFi worms: the…

…this week’s posts: The viscoelastic flytrap The biopolymer scourge of insect life How atom lasers are coming of age The world’s first continuously pumped atom laser…we think The birth of piezo-spintronics Vibrating bridge that spin polarises electrons The number of fundamental dimensional constants reduced to two Length and time but not mass Is spacetime an…