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Tabby's star
A new thesis suggests that the star may not have been fading in brightness over the last century – but remains mum on what could be causing the erratic flux at all.
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32 days and counting
Do you just wait for your writers' block to fade or do you have a remedy for it?
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Priggish NEJM editorial on data-sharing misses the point it almost made
The editorial expresses fear that people who publish in the journal's pages could be wrong – cleanly forgetting that replication and revalidation are a big part of science.
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Parsing Ajay Sharma v. E = mc2
An Indian scientist’s disputes with Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence betray a misreading of how one of history’s most famous equations came to be.
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Note
This blog turns five today. It's nice to think I've a habit when few others have survived. Thank you for reading my writing. :)
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Ways of seeing
A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.
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Colliders of the future: LHeC and FCC-he
Because powerful accelerators take at least a decade to realise, physicists have started work on two machines to aid physics research of the future.
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Some thoughts on the nature of cyber-weapons
The agents of cyber-warfare are trapped as much as liberated by the ambiguities surrounding what the nature of a cyber-weapon is at all, with what intent and for what purpose it was crafted, allowing its repercussions to seem anywhere from rapid to evanescent.
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Hopes for a new particle at the LHC offset by call for more data
The data pointing at signs of a new particle isn't good enough to use yet.
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Physicists could have to wait 66,000 yottayears to see an electron decay
An electron's lifetime is predicted by prevalent theory that physicists would like to see disproved
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New LHC data has more of the same but could something be in the offing?
Run 2 results from the LHC show that QCD is scale-invariant – in keeping with the Standard Model prediction.
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Calling 2015
Overall, 2015 was a great year – breaking away from 2014 and nicely setting up 2016.