Physics knows a lot about the electron beyond the simple "Standard Model picture"

Ethan Siegel wrote a text about the electron, Ask Ethan: What Is An Electron? , which includes some fair yet simplified standard conceptual facts abo…

Tullio Regge: 77th birthday

Tullio Regge celebrates his 77th birthday today. Congratulations! Regge, a recipient of many awards including the Dirac medal (1996), a global warmi…

E=mc2: Einstein explains

Sheldon Glashow, Werner Heisenberg: birthdays

Also celebrating: Arnold Sommerfeld, Cecil Frank Powell, Giuseppe Occhialini, Franco Rasetti (RIP 2001) For some mysterious reason, maybe because I …

Sheldon and Leonard co-author a paper on superfluid vacuum theory

In the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory, Leonard Hofstadter had an interesting idea while he was talking to Penny: the spacetime is a surface of…

Christian Doppler: an anniversary

Irène Joliot-Curie died on March 17th, 1956. She was a member of a high-brow physics family who got her Nobel prize for artificial (alpha-radiation-…

There is a big demand for "not just superficial" science journalism

It's totally OK when most readers only understand a small part of the articles iDNES.cz is Czechia's most influential center-right news serve…

Lisa Randall on Higgs, physics, real world

If you have 49 minutes, you may listen to this interview of the Lip TV 's Walter Kim with Lisa Randall. She just celebrated the 15th birthday thi…

Satyendra Bose: 118th birthday

Because of modest festivities, I didn't have enough time and energy to celebrate the anniversary of Satyendra Bose , an eminent theoretical physi…