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Why is it dark at night? Join Alice & Bob in nine fun-filled, animated adventures as they wonder about the world around us. Discover with them that it is sometimes the simplest questions – like this one – that lead … Continue reading →

This year the lecture was given by the 2010 winner of the Isaac Newton medal, Professor Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study and was chaired by Professor Michael B Green, Cambridge University. There are two parts to the lecture.Videos by … Continue reading →

 This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are … Continue reading →

Looks interesting. Dark matter is among the most important open problems in modern physics. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book describes the theoretical and experimental aspects of the dark matter problem in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Featuring … Continue reading →

I thought this kind of neat and wondered…..maybe a scientist could correct if any misrepresentation is evident in the following demonstration. The Universe made possible by Number Sleuth Dialogos of Eide

Are we Living in the Past? (Please note: this page is not currently maintained, and has not been updated since 2002) The flash-lag effect is a visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location … Continue reading →

A journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in scientific literature. Journal clubs are usually organized around a defined subject in basic or applied research. For example, the application of evidence-based medicine … Continue reading →

To discover what our world is made of and how it works at the most fundamental level is the challenge of particle physics. The tools of particle physics—experiments at particle accelerators and underground laboratories, together with observations of space—bring opportunities … Continue reading →