Five years ago, three scientists won the Nobel prize for discovering that the universe isn’t just expanding, but that that expansion is accelerating for reasons unkown. And now that discovery is a little less certain than it was.
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Photo: Flickr user Allan Ajifo, CC BY 2.0 So, I’m a feminist. As such, I belong to a number of feminist Facebook groups and follow a number of feminist blogs. And 99% of the time […]
Image: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, CC BY-SA 2.0 Phys.org is reporting, as of yesterday, that physicists have confirmed the “possible discovery of fifth force of nature.” That’s some pretty big talk, but let’s back up for a […]
Does it even produce thrust? | Photo: Mario Solera, CC0 (Public Domain) *** Remember Robert Shawyer’s EMDrive? The cone-shaped thing that supposedly produces thrust without a propellant? I’ve talked about it before. Well, it’s still not confirmed […]
Holding baby’s hands forever? | Photo: fruity monkey, CC BY 2.0 A new post over at Retraction Watch has followed hard on the heels of a New York Times article about something called the “Ashley […]
*** Big announcements in the world of science aren’t very common, and when they are, it’s because someone came up with a massive prediction that no-one outside of a select scientific community were even aware […]
A post from over a year ago has been making the rounds again, with the headline “No-one Could See The Color Blue Until Modern Times.” The article from Business Insider contains some interesting observations on […]
In a story that is likely to get weirder before it gets saner, a paper published in the journal PLOS One has made some, shall we say rather unusual claims. Read on. [Updated 5:30pm 3 […]
In which I largely fail to describe what’s going on. *** In the news yesterday, it came out that the “D-Wave X2 Quantum Computing System” that Google teamed with NASA to buy in 2013 does seem to […]