(Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!) This post is a review of The Impossible Man , a recent (2024) biography, by the science writer...

Should you be a nonphysicist and find yourself at a physics party (maybe as a friend or spouse) here are 15 pieces of essential physics...

Probably like other physicists, I get an interesting range of reactions when I reveal my profession to other people, at a party, next to...

A famous quote, often attributed to Henry Kissinger, says that the tussles in academia are especially vicious because the stakes are so...

It's an unwritten rule in science that to attract funding for a project or organization, or to promote a scientific technique or relevant...

Science is well known for not being based on authority; truth in science is ultimately decided by experiment (for the natural sciences)...

With all the buzz about AI, including two Nobel prizes this year (in physics and chemistry) related to the subject, it was time for me to...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that...

After seeing the substantial interest in my previous post on the upcoming Nobel award announcements (Oct 7-14), I decided to stay on that...

It's almost that time of the year again - the Nobel prizes will be announced 7-14 October (the physics prize on October 8)!! In...

Lasers make for a $20 billion dollar industry and have all kinds of applications: industrial, medical, surveying, communication...

This post is aimed at stating explicitly something that is not always communicated to physics students as they make their way through the...

This is a post about my visit to the museum housing the scientific collection of C. V. Raman , the Nobel laureate in Physics, after whom...

This post is a review of the article ' Beyond The Big Bang Theory: Revealing the Everyday Research Lives of Theoretical Physics Faculty '...

The Problem Peer review is a highly contentious topic in academia. This is because papers are published (always) and funds are granted...

Clocks play an incredibly important role in our lives. This post is about a recent development, based on nuclear physics , which promises...

The Problem A question I receive very frequently from students is: what do I need to know or what courses do I need to take, to join your...

What is fashion? Many human beings seem to love what is new and get bored of whatever is old. New and old are of course relative terms....

This post is about a book I stumbled upon while cleaning my room: Physics and Music by Gleb Anfilov, translated from the Russian by Boris...

Many - if not most - people think that the life of a professor is relatively boring. As a counterexample, I will try to offer in this...