Cold-fusion demonstration “a success”
On 23 March 1989 Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that they had observed controlled nuclear fusion in a glass jar at room temperature...
Testing for no dark matter
You might recall a while back we reported on a prediction for peculiar event that takes place on the two equinoxes...
Canadian firm shelves isotope reactors
The sad saga of the MAPLE nuclear reactors may have finally come to a close...
The dusty cosmos
Astrophysicists have a better idea of how dust obscures the light from galaxies...
US public say yes to science debate
I'm sorry to say that this snippet of news about ScienceDebate 2008 escaped my attention...
Oh brother, where art thou?
I wonder if many other scientists under the wing of the Holy See agree with Jose Gabriel Funes...
Nearly seeing Hawking radiation?
Astrophysicists have known for more than three decades that black holes shouldn't be totally black...
Einstein's mistakes
'Many of [Einstein's] ground-breaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious misconceptions in physics to blatant errors in mathematics'...
The return of the 'Science Warrior'
Plugging his new book in Bristol, UK, last night was arch-rationalist Alan Sokal...
Who cares if it’s not even wrong?
"So what would you do if string theory is wrong?" asks string theorist Moataz Emam in a paper posted on arXiv yesterday...
