The Physics arXiv Blog
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10 years of the Physics arXiv Blog: 2010
The Physics arXiv Blog is 10 years old today. Over the next few days, we’ll be celebrating by publishing links to the top stories from each year of its existence. Today, 2007. The Physics arXiv Blog is 10 years old and we’re celebrating by publishing links to the top stories from each year of its…
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10 years of the Physics arXiv Blog: 2009
The Physics arXiv Blog is 10 years old today. Over the next few days, we’ll be celebrating by publishing links to the top stories from each year of its existence. Today, 2007. The Physics arXiv Blog is 10 years old and we’re celebrating by publishing links to the top stories from each year of its…
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10 years of the Physics arXiv Blog: 2008
The Physics arXiv Blog is 10 years old today. Over the next few days, we’ll be celebrating by publishing links to the top stories from each year of its existence. Today, 2007. The Physics arXiv Blog is 10 years old today. Over the next few days, we’ll be celebrating by publishing links to the top…
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10 years of the Physics arXiv Blog: 2007
The Physics arXiv Blog is 10 years old today. Over the next few days, we’ll be celebrating by publishing links to the top stories from each year of its existence. Today, 2007. Enjoy! The incredible galactic foxtrot Game theory and the future of Adwords The frightening prospect of flu Cellphone records reveal new patterns of…
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More changes to the Physics arXiv Blog
From September 2013, The Physics arXiv Blog is moving to Medium.com. Keep up to date with the latest ideas in physics and astronomy at: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog For those of you more interested in technology, I’ll be covering this at Technology Review in a blog called “Emerging Technology from the arXiv” at: http://www.technologyreview.com/contributor/emerging-technology-from-the-arxiv/ Follow the headlines on…
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Important changes to the Physics arXiv Blog
From Monday 13 March, the Physics arXiv Blog will appear exclusively on technologyreview.com This is an exciting move for the blog because it will allow me to concentrate on reading and filtering the fantastic ideas on the arXiv while leaving the increasingly onerous task of administering a popular website to the talented tech guys at…
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Chops ‘n’ changes
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week: A Short History of Hindu Astronomy & Ephemeris Time Asymmetries in Extensive air Showers: A Novel Method to Identify UHECR species The Digital Restoration of Da Vinci’s Sketches Physics of the Shannon Limits Astronomy, Topography and Dynastic History in the Age of the Pyramids
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The secret of world class putting
Watch professional golfers putt and you’ll eventually notice three common features about their style, says Robert Grober, an expert on the physics of golf at the Yale University. First, the putter head always moves at a constant speed when it hits the ball. Second, the length of time the putting stroke takes has little impact…
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How to narrow the search for ET
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence needs all the help it can get. Depending on who you listen to, the chances of us spotting an intelligent technological society vary from an almost certainty to practically zero. The trouble is the sheer size of the search. The Milky Way contains around 10^10 sun-like stars, any one of…
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Visible light metamaterials on the cheap
Only a couple of years, more than a few physicists doubted that it would ever be possible to build decent metamaterials with a negative refractive index for visible light. Metamaterials have bulk properties that depend on the structure of their components rather than the bulk properties of the materials from which they are made. The…